Advanced School in High Performance Computing Tools for e-Science - joint DEMOCRITOS/INFM-eLab/SISSA-ICTP activity

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Advanced School in High Performance Computing Tools for e-Science - joint DEMOCRITOS/INFM-eLab/SISSA-ICTP activity | (smr 1830)

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Monday, 5 March 2007
- 08:30 - 10:00 Registration & Administrative Formalities
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 08:30 Registration & Administrative Formalities 1h30'
- 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
- 10:30 - 10:45 Welcome Address and Introduction to Course Goals
  - 10:30 Welcome Address and Introduction to Course Goals 15'
    
    Speaker: S. Cozzini, A. Kohlmeyer, R. Rousseau
- 10:45 - 11:45 Introduction to HPC. Questions
  - 10:45 Introduction to HPC. Questions 1h0'
    
    Speaker: S. Cozzini (CNR-INFM/Democritos, Trieste)
- 11:45 - 12:45 Basic Linux commands and Shell scripts. Questions
  - 11:45 Basic Linux commands and Shell scripts. Questions 1h0'
    
    Speaker: J. Montoya (SISSA, Trieste)
- 12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
  - 12:45 Lunch Break 1h15'
- 14:00 - 15:00 More about Linux, Networking, Basic Configuration of Workstation, NFS, NIS. Questions
  - 14:00 More about Linux, Networking, Basic Configuration of Workstation, NFS, NIS. Questions 1h0'
    
    Speaker: R. Rousseau (SISSA, Trieste)
- 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 15:00 Coffee Break 30'
- 15:30 - 18:30 Laboratory Session: Installing & Setting up your own Linux Workstation
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
  - 15:30 Laboratory Session: Installing & Setting up your own Linux Workstation 3h0'
- 18:30 - 19:00 Homeworks: Answer simple tests update your blog
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
  - 18:30 Homeworks: Answer simple tests update your blog 30'
Tuesday, 6 March 2007
- 09:00 - 10:00 Floating Points Numbers: How to work with them correctly and efficiently
  - 09:00 Floating Points Numbers: How to work with them correctly and efficiently 1h0'
    
    Speaker: S. Cozzini (CNR-INFM/Democritos, Trieste)
- 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
- 10:30 - 11:30 From Source Code to Executable: Preprocessing/Compiling/Linking. Questions
  - 10:30 From Source Code to Executable: Preprocessing/Compiling/Linking. Questions 1h0'
    
    Speaker: G. Diaz Toro (Univ. de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela)
- 11:30 - 12:30 Using Makefiles to build and test codes on Multiple Platforms
  - 11:30 Using Makefiles to build and test codes on Multiple Platforms 1h0'
    
    Speaker: A. Kohlmeyer (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
- 12:30 - 12:40 Wget: A Tool for Downloading on Slow Networks
  - 12:30 Wget: A Tool for Downloading on Slow Networks 10'
    
    Speaker: M. Verissino Alves (I.C.T.P., Trieste)
- 12:40 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
  - 12:40 Lunch Break 1h20'
- 14:00 - 16:00 Laboratory Part 1: Installing the GNU, PGI & Intel Compiler Packages
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
  - 14:00 Laboratory Part 1: Installing the GNU, PGI & Intel Compiler Packages 2h0'
- 16:00 - 16:10 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 16:00 Coffee Break 10'
- 16:10 - 18:30 Laboratory Part 2: Test the Compilers & play with FP Numbers
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
  - 16:10 Laboratory Part 2: Test the Compilers & play with FP Numbers 2h20'
- 19:00 - 21:00 RECEPTION
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
  - 19:00 RECEPTION 2h0'
Wednesday, 7 March 2007
- 09:00 - 10:00 Storage Performance Hierarchy and how this affects Performances. Questions
  - 09:00 Storage Performance Hierarchy and how this affects Performances. Questions 1h0'
    
    Speaker: R. Rousseau (SISSA, Trieste)
- 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
- 10:30 - 11:30 Using Compilers and Profilers to Optimize your Code for Performance
  - 10:30 Using Compilers and Profilers to Optimize your Code for Performance 1h0'
    
    Speaker: S. Cozzini (CNR-INFM/Democritos, Trieste)
- 11:30 - 12:30 Performance Libraries for Mathematical Application
  - 11:30 Performance Libraries for Mathematical Application 1h0'
    
    Speaker: R. Rousseau (SISSA, Trieste)
- 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
  - 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
- 14:00 - 16:30 Laboratory Part 1: Optimize simple codes provided by Lab. Measure memory hierarchy speed
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
  - 14:00 Laboratory Part 1: Optimize simple codes provided by Lab. Measure memory hierarchy speed 2h30'
- 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 16:30 Coffee Break 30'
- 17:00 - 19:00 Laboratory Part 2: Optimize a black box code provided by Lab. Compare performances of different optimized libraries on matrix multiplication
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
  - 17:00 Laboratory Part 2: Optimize a black box code provided by Lab. Compare performances of different optimized libraries on matrix multiplication 2h0'
Thursday, 8 March 2007
- 09:00 - 10:00 Hardware/Software for Parallel Computing with Linux
  - 09:00 Hardware/Software for Parallel Computing with Linux 1h0'
    
    Speaker: R. Rousseau (SISSA, Trieste)
- 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
- 10:30 - 11:30 Introduction to MPI, Part 1
  - 10:30 Introduction to MPI, Part 1 1h0'
    
    Speaker: S. Cozzini (CNR-INFM/Democritos, Trieste)
- 11:30 - 12:30 Introduction to MPI, Part 2
  - 11:30 Introduction to MPI, Part 2 1h0'
    
    Speaker: A. Kohlmeyer (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
- 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
  - 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
- 14:00 - 16:30 Laboratory Part 1: Test Simple MPI Programs on a Single Processor
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
  - 14:00 Laboratory Part 1: Test Simple MPI Programs on a Single Processor 2h30'
- 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 16:30 Coffee Break 30'
- 17:00 - 19:00 Laboratory Part 2: Set up Mini Clusters to Test MPI on True Parallel Machines
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
  - 17:00 Laboratory Part 2: Set up Mini Clusters to Test MPI on True Parallel Machines 2h0'
Friday, 9 March 2007
- 09:00 - 10:00 How to find the best resources for your Application
  - 09:00 How to find the best resources for your Application 1h0'
    
    Speaker: R. Rousseau (SISSA, Trieste)
- 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
- 10:30 - 11:30 Introduction to Open MP
  - 10:30 Introduction to Open MP 1h0'
    
    Speaker: S. Cozzini (CNR-INFM/Democritos, Trieste)
- 11:30 - 12:30 Queues systems and how to use Torque/Maui
  - 11:30 Queues systems and how to use Torque/Maui 1h0'
    
    Speaker: P. Calucci (SISSA, Trieste)
- 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
  - 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
- 14:00 - 15:00 Error Messages and Debugging
  - 14:00 Error Messages and Debugging 1h0'
    
    Speaker: A. Kohlmeyer (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
- 15:00 - 16:30 Laboratory Session: OpenMP examples Use of OpenMP threaded libraries
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
  - 15:00 Laboratory Session: OpenMP examples Use of OpenMP threaded libraries 1h30'
- 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
  - 16:30 Coffee Break 30'
- 17:00 - 19:00 Laboratory Session: Use real parallel machines to run MPI benchmarks
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
  - 17:00 Laboratory Session: Use real parallel machines to run MPI benchmarks 2h0'
Monday, 12 March 2007
- 09:00 - 09:15 Introduction to Week 2: How to work
  - 09:00 Introduction to Week 2: How to work 15'
    
    Speaker: R. Rousseau (SISSA, Trieste)
- 09:15 - 10:45 Advanced MPI tutorial
  - 09:15 Advanced MPI tutorial 1h30'
    
    Speaker: A. Kohlmeyer (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphis, USA)
- 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 10:45 Coffee Break 30'
- 11:15 - 12:00 Cluster in Box
  - 11:15 Cluster in Box 45'
    
    Speaker: N. Paklovic (Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia)
- 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
  - 12:00 Lunch Break 1h30'
- 13:30 - 14:30 Installation procedures for clusters
  - 13:30 Installation procedures for clusters 1h0'
    
    Speaker: M. Baricevic (CNR-INFM/Democritos, Trieste)
- 14:30 - 16:00 Laboratory work: Hardware - Installation Procedure for a Cluster Master Node, Software 1 - first meeting and group/sub-unit formation, Software 2 - Participants work on their own projects with help of Tutors
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
  - 14:30 Laboratory work: Hardware - Installation Procedure for a Cluster Master Node, Software 1 - first meeting and group/sub-unit formation, Software 2 - Participants work on their own projects with help of Tutors 1h30'
- 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
- 16:30 - 19:30 Laboratory work continues
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
  - 16:30 Laboratory work continues 3h0'
Tuesday, 13 March 2007
- 09:00 - 10:30 I/O Part 1: I/O Issues in HPC and Introduction to Parallel Filsystem
  - 09:00 I/O Part 1: I/O Issues in HPC and Introduction to Parallel Filsystem 1h30'
    
    Speaker: A. Kohlmeyer (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
  - 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
- 11:00 - 12:30 Short tutorial on GRID computing
  - 11:00 Short tutorial on GRID computing 1h30'
    
    Speaker: S, Cozzini,CNR-INFM/Democritos, Trieste; (R. Murri, EGRID ICTP Project, G. Diaz, Cecalcula ULA Merida)
- 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
  - 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
- 14:00 - 14:30 GReIC Project: Towards Grid-DataBase Management System
  - 14:00 GReIC Project: Towards Grid-DataBase Management System 30'
    
    Speaker: S. Fiore (SPACI Consortium & Univ. of Salento, Lecce)
- 14:30 - 15:30 Laboratory work: Hardware - Install and benchmark a small 10 server, ..- Software 1/2: - participants work on their own projects with help of Tutors
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
  - 14:30 Laboratory work: Hardware - Install and benchmark a small 10 server, ..- Software 1/2: - participants work on their own projects with help of Tutors 1h0'
- 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
- 16:00 - 19:30 Laboratory work continues
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
  - 16:00 Laboratory work continues 3h30'
Wednesday, 14 March 2007
- 09:00 - 09:45 Setting up Queues systems (TORQUE + Maui)
  - 09:00 Setting up Queues systems (TORQUE + Maui) 45'
    
    Speaker: P. Calucci (SISSA, Trieste)
- 09:45 - 10:30 Mellanox Infiniband Overview
  - 09:45 Mellanox Infiniband Overview 45'
    
    Speaker: E. Cohen (Mellanox, Israel)
- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
- 11:00 - 12:00 Again on GRID computing: a few general concepts
  - 11:00 Again on GRID computing: a few general concepts 1h0'
    
    Speaker: G. Diaz (Univ. de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela)
- 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
  - 12:00 Lunch Break 1h30'
- 13:30 - 14:30 -
  - 13:30 - 1h0'
- 14:30 - 15:30 Laboratory work: - Hardware: - High speed network instalation and benchmarking:INFINIBAND .....- Software 1/2: participants work on their own projects with help of Tutors
  - 14:30 Laboratory work: - Hardware: - High speed network instalation and benchmarking:INFINIBAND .....- Software 1/2: participants work on their own projects with help of Tutors 1h0'
- 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
- 16:00 - 19:30 Laboratory work continues
  - 16:00 Laboratory work continues 3h30'
Thursday, 15 March 2007
- 09:15 - 09:50 Setting up and maintaining HPC resources in West Africa
  - 09:15 Setting up and maintaining HPC resources in West Africa 35'
    
    Speaker: E. Ofori (AITI-KACE, Accra, Ghana)
- 09:50 - 10:20 HPC experiences in South East Europe
  - 09:50 HPC experiences in South East Europe 30'
    
    Speaker: A. Balaz (Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia)
- 10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
- 11:00 - 11:30 HPC in India
  - 11:00 HPC in India 30'
    
    Speaker: B. Sundaram (JNCASR, Bangalore, India)
- 11:30 - 12:00 HPC in Latin America
  - 11:30 HPC in Latin America 30'
    
    Speaker: G. Diaz Toro (Univ. de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela)
- 12:00 - 12:30 HPC resources/initiatives for climate simulation in Africa
  - 12:00 HPC resources/initiatives for climate simulation in Africa 30'
    
    Speaker: J. Intsiful (UK Met. Office, Exeter, UK)
- 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
  - 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
- 13:30 - 15:30 Laboratory work:.. - Hardware: - High speed network installation and benchmarking: myrinet, Software 1/2: participants work on their own projects with help of tutors
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
  - 13:30 Laboratory work:.. - Hardware: - High speed network installation and benchmarking: myrinet, Software 1/2: participants work on their own projects with help of tutors 2h0'
- 14:00 - 14:30 EU-IndiaGrid team
  - 14:00 EU-IndiaGrid team 30'
- 14:30 - 15:00 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: SETTING UP HPC/GRID TRAINING IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD... - work will be done in small groups, based on geographical area, each one chaired by school staff from that region.
  - 14:30 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: SETTING UP HPC/GRID TRAINING IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD... - work will be done in small groups, based on geographical area, each one chaired by school staff from that region. 30'
- 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
- 16:00 - 19:30 Laboratory work continues
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
  - 16:00 Laboratory work continues 3h30'
Friday, 16 March 2007
- 09:00 - 10:30 Presentations from Participants
  - 09:00 Presentations from Participants 1h30'
- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
- 11:00 - 11:30 Presentations by Participants
  - 11:00 Presentations by Participants 30'
- 11:30 - 12:00 Virtual Clusters: the Eurotech approach
  - 11:30 Virtual Clusters: the Eurotech approach 30'
    
    Speaker: A. Gervaso (Exadron- Eurotech, Udine)
- 12:00 - 14:30 Buffet Reception offered by EUROTECH
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
  - 12:00 Buffet Reception offered by EUROTECH 2h30'
- 14:30 - 15:30 Directors of the Workshop: Concluding Remarks, Handling out of the Certificates
  - 14:30 Directors of the Workshop: Concluding Remarks, Handling out of the Certificates 1h0'