Sixth INFN International School on: "Architectures, tools and methodologies for developing efficient large scale scientific computing applications" ESC14 - Bertinoro (Forlì-Cesena) Italy 19-25 October 2014

19 Oct 2014, 16:00 → 25 Oct 2014, 15:00 Europe/Rome

Bertinoro

Sunday 19 October

17:00 → 20:30 Registration and Welcome

20:30 → 22:00 Welcome Dinner

Monday 20 October

08:30 → 18:00 Session 1

08:30 Welcome and opening remarks

Speaker: Mauro Morandin (INFN - Padova)

09:00 Introduction and Concepts of Performance and Efficiency

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides esc14-intro-perf.pdf

09:45 Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

Slides ESC_Lectures_Jarp_1014_V7_Actual.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

11:45 Hands-on environment checkout

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides esc_env_setup.pdf

12:45 Lunch break

14:15 Floating point computing efficiency

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

Slides OptimalFloatingPoint2014.pdf

15:00 Floating point computing efficiency

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

15:45 Coffee break

16:15 FloatingPoint Optimization exercises

17:00 Student lightning presentations

Slides Khan_ESC14.ppt Monday_students_presentation_ESC14.pdf

20:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Tuesday 21 October

08:30 → 18:00 Session 2

08:30 Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

Slides cpp.pdf

09:15 Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

10:00 Coffee break

10:30 Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

11:15 Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

12:00 Self-managed time

12:45 Lunch break

14:15 Introduction to parallel computing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides 06_Intro_to_par_prog.pdf

15:00 Introduction to parallel computing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

15:45 Coffee break

16:15 Introduction to parallel computing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

17:00 Students lightning presentations

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides spataro_ESC14.ppt Tuesday_students_presentation_ESC14.pdf

20:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Wednesday 22 October

08:30 → 14:15 Session 3

08:30 A "Hands-on" introduction to OpenMP

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

09:15 A "Hands-on" introduction to OpenMP

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides 07_hands_on_intro_openMP.pdf

10:00 Coffee break

10:30 A "Hands-on" introduction to OpenMP

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

11:15 A "Hands-on" introduction to OpenMP

12:00 Self-managed time

12:45 Lunch break

14:15 → 19:45 Session 4

14:15 Meeting at Revellino

14:30 Departure from Bertinoro to Ravenna

15:30 Arrival to Ravenna and guided tour in the centre of the city

Meeting point: Piazzale Aldo Moro

18:45 Meeting and departure of the bus from Ravenna to Forlinpopoli (Casa Artusi restaurant)(

Casa Artusi Via A. Costa 27/31 47034 Forlimpopoli (FC)

20:00 → 22:30 Social dinner

Casa Artusi Restaurant

Thursday 23 October

08:30 → 12:45 Session 5

08:30 Vectorization

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

Slides OptimalFloatingPoint2014.pdf

09:15 Vectorization

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

10:00 Coffee break

10:30 GPUs and the Heterogeneous programming problem

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides 08_intro_to_gpu_programming.pdf

11:15 GPUs and the Heterogeneous programming problem

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:00 Self-managed time

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:45 → 14:15 Lunch

14:15 → 19:00 Session 6

14:15 OpenCL and CUDA: A hands-on Introduction

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides 09_OpenCL_hands_on_intro_esc.pdf

15:00 OpenCL and CUDA: A hands-on Introduction

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

15:45 Coffee break

16:15 CUDA: A hands-on Introduction

Speaker: Francesco Rossi (INFN Bologna)

Slides esc14_cuda.pdf

18:00 Evening lecture: "Big Data"

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

20:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Friday 24 October

08:30 → 12:45 Session 7

08:30 Efficient Memory management

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Exercises http://elmer.web.cern.ch/elmer/esc14/index.html

Slides esc14-memory-lecture.pdf

09:15 Efficient Memory management

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

10:00 Coffee break

10:30 Efficient Memory management

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

11:15 Efficient Memory management

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

12:00 Self-managed time

12:45 → 14:15 Lunch

14:15 → 18:00 Session 8

14:15 A hands-on introduction to Cluster Computing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides 13_hands_on_intro_MPI.pdf

15:00 A hands-on introduction to Cluster Computing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

15:45 Coffee break

16:15 A hands-on introduction to Cluster Computing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

20:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Saturday 25 October

08:30 → 14:50 Session 9

08:30 Students feedback

09:00 Final examination

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Delivery of certificates of attendance

12:00 Lunch

14:00 Shuttle departure (to Forli' railway station)