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

Oct 19, 2014, 4:00 PM → Oct 25, 2014, 3:00 PM Europe/Rome

Bertinoro

Sun, October 19

Registration and Welcome

8:30 PM Welcome Dinner

Mon, October 20

Session 1

1 Welcome and opening remarks

Speaker: Mauro Morandin (INFN - Padova)

2 Introduction and Concepts of Performance and Efficiency

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides esc14-intro-perf.pdf

3 Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

Slides ESC_Lectures_Jarp_1014_V7_Actual.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee break

4 Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

5 Hands-on environment checkout

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides esc_env_setup.pdf

12:45 PM Lunch break

6 Floating point computing efficiency

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

Slides OptimalFloatingPoint2014.pdf

7 Floating point computing efficiency

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

3:45 PM Coffee break

8 FloatingPoint Optimization exercises

9 Student lightning presentations

Slides Khan_ESC14.ppt Monday_students_presentation_ESC14.pdf

8:30 PM Dinner

Tue, October 21

Session 2

10 Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

Slides cpp.pdf

11 Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

10:00 AM Coffee break

12 Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

13 Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

14 Self-managed time

12:45 PM Lunch break

15 Introduction to parallel computing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides 06_Intro_to_par_prog.pdf

16 Introduction to parallel computing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

3:45 PM Coffee break

17 Introduction to parallel computing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

18 Students lightning presentations

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides spataro_ESC14.ppt Tuesday_students_presentation_ESC14.pdf

8:30 PM Dinner

Wed, October 22

Session 3

19 A "Hands-on" introduction to OpenMP

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

20 A "Hands-on" introduction to OpenMP

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides 07_hands_on_intro_openMP.pdf

10:00 AM Coffee break

21 A "Hands-on" introduction to OpenMP

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

22 A "Hands-on" introduction to OpenMP

23 Self-managed time

12:45 PM Lunch break

Session 4

24 Meeting at Revellino

25 Departure from Bertinoro to Ravenna

26 Arrival to Ravenna and guided tour in the centre of the city

Meeting point: Piazzale Aldo Moro

27 Meeting and departure of the bus from Ravenna to Forlinpopoli (Casa Artusi restaurant)(

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

8:00 PM Social dinner

Casa Artusi Restaurant

Thu, October 23

Session 5

28 Vectorization

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

Slides OptimalFloatingPoint2014.pdf

29 Vectorization

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

10:00 AM Coffee break

30 GPUs and the Heterogeneous programming problem

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides 08_intro_to_gpu_programming.pdf

31 GPUs and the Heterogeneous programming problem

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

32 Self-managed time

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:45 PM Lunch

Session 6

33 OpenCL and CUDA: A hands-on Introduction

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides 09_OpenCL_hands_on_intro_esc.pdf

34 OpenCL and CUDA: A hands-on Introduction

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

3:45 PM Coffee break

35 CUDA: A hands-on Introduction

Speaker: Francesco Rossi (INFN Bologna)

Slides esc14_cuda.pdf

36 Evening lecture: "Big Data"

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

8:00 PM Dinner

Fri, October 24

Session 7

37 Efficient Memory management

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

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

Slides esc14-memory-lecture.pdf

38 Efficient Memory management

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

10:00 AM Coffee break

39 Efficient Memory management

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

40 Efficient Memory management

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

41 Self-managed time

12:45 PM Lunch

Session 8

42 A hands-on introduction to Cluster Computing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides 13_hands_on_intro_MPI.pdf

43 A hands-on introduction to Cluster Computing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

3:45 PM Coffee break

44 A hands-on introduction to Cluster Computing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

8:30 PM Dinner

Sat, October 25

Session 9

45 Students feedback

46 Final examination

11:00 AM Coffee break

47 Delivery of certificates of attendance

12:00 PM Lunch

48 Shuttle departure (to Forli' railway station)