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Advanced School in High Performance and GRID Computing | (smr 1967)

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Monday, 3 November 2008

08:30 - 09:30 Registration

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 08:30 Registration 1h0'

09:30 - 09:40 Introduction to the School

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

09:30 Introduction to the School 10'

Speaker:	Stefano Cozzini / Axel Kohlmeyer (CNR/INFM Democritos and Sissa/eLab, Trieste, Italy / University of Penn., Philadelphia, U.S.A)
Material:	lecture notes

09:40 - 10:30 Introduction to HPC and Cluster computing

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

09:40 Introduction to HPC and Cluster computing 50'

Speaker:	Stefano Cozzini (CNR/INFM Democritos and Sissa/eLab, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 10:30 Coffee Break 30'

11:00 - 11:45 Introduction to Linux

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

11:00 Introduction to Linux 45'

Speaker:	Axel Kohlmeyer (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A)
Material:	lecture notes

11:45 - 12:30 Tools for Linux Workstations

-Compression and packaging utilities: tar/gzip 

-ssh basic

-packages management: yum/rpm etc..

-wget 

-gnuplot and/or other tool for plotting

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

11:45 Tools for Linux Workstations 45'

Speaker:	Riccardo di Meo (ICTP EU-IndiaGrid project, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
14:00 - 16:00 Crash Course on Linux: Intermediate Lab (part 1)
```
A small crash course on bash scripting etc.etc.

Materials are available starting from here:

http://www.democritos.it/hpc-wiki/index.php/Main/MasteringLinux
```
Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
- 14:00 Crash Course on Linux: Intermediate Lab (part 1) 2h0'
  
  Speaker: Piero Calucci/ Moreno Baricevic/ Riccardo di Meo (Sissa/eLab and ICTP/EundiaGrid, Trieste, Italy)
14:00 - 16:00 Crash Course on Linux: Beginner's Lab (part 1)
```
A small crash course on bash scripting etc.etc.

Materials are available starting from here:

http://www.democritos.it/hpc-wiki/index.php/Main/MasteringLinux 
```
Location: Adriatico Guest House - Eklund Informatics Lab (Lower Level 1)
- 14:00 Crash Course on Linux: Beginner's Lab (part 1) 2h0'
  
  Speaker: Iztok Gregori & Stefano Cozzini (Sissa/eLab, Trieste, Italy)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
16:30 - 18:30 Crash Course on Linux: Intermediate Lab (part 2)
```
A small crash course on bash scripting etc.etc.

Materials are available starting from here:

http://www.democritos.it/hpc-wiki/index.php/Main/MasteringLinux 
```
Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
- 16:30 Crash Course on Linux: Intermediate Lab (part 2) 2h0'
  
  Speaker: Piero Calucci/ Moreno Baricevic/ Riccardo di Meo (Sissa/eLab and ICTP/EundiaGrid, Trieste, Italy)
16:30 - 18:30 Crash Course on Linux: Beginners Lab (part 2)
```
A small crash course on bash scripting etc.etc.

Materials are available starting from here:

http://www.democritos.it/hpc-wiki/index.php/Main/MasteringLinux 
```
Location: Adriatico Guest House - Eklund Informatics Lab (Lower Level 1)
- 16:30 Crash Course on Linux: Beginners Lab (part 2) 2h0'
  
  Speaker: Iztok Gregori & Stefano Cozzini (Sissa/eLab, Trieste, Italy)
18:30 - 19:15 Homework: blog about the day

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 18:30 Homework: blog about the day 45'

Tuesday, 4 November 2008

09:00 - 09:45 Floating Points Numbers: How to work with them correctly and efficiently

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

09:00 Floating Points Numbers: How to work with them correctly and efficiently 45'

Speaker:	Stefano Cozzini (CNR/INFM Democritos and Sissa/eLab, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

09:45 - 10:30 From Source Code to Executable: Preprocessing/Compiling/Linking/Makefiles (part I)

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

09:45 From Source Code to Executable: Preprocessing/Compiling/Linking/Makefiles (part I) 45'

Speaker:	Axel Kohlmeyer (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A.)
Material:	lecture notes

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
11:00 - 11:45 From Source Code to Executable: Preprocessing/Compiling/Linking/ Makefiles (part II)

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 11:00 From Source Code to Executable: Preprocessing/Compiling/Linking/ Makefiles (part II) 45'
  
  Speaker: Axel Kohlmeyer (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A.)
11:45 - 12:10 From Source Code to Executable: Preprocessing/Compiling/Linking/ Makefiles (part III)

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 11:45 From Source Code to Executable: Preprocessing/Compiling/Linking/ Makefiles (part III) 25'
  
  Speaker: Axel Kohlmeyer (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A.)

12:10 - 12:30 Working with svn

A short introduction how to use svn (http://subversion.tigris.org/)

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

12:10 Working with svn 20'

Speaker:	Antonio Messina (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
14:00 - 16:00 Laboratory: Install compilers and programming tools on your workstation
```
Exercise Instruction available here:

http://www.democritos.it/hpc-wiki/index.php/Main/InstallingTheGNUPGIAndIntelCompilerPackages
```
Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 14:00 Laboratory: Install compilers and programming tools on your workstation 2h0'
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
16:30 - 18:30 Laboratory Part 2: Test Compilers on IEEE floating point arithmetic
```
Exercise Instructions available here:

http://www.democritos.it/hpc-wiki/index.php/Main/TestTheCompilersAndPlayWithFPNumbers
```
Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 16:30 Laboratory Part 2: Test Compilers on IEEE floating point arithmetic 2h0'
18:30 - 19:15 Homework: blog about the day

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 18:30 Homework: blog about the day 45'

Wednesday, 5 November 2008

09:00 - 09:45 Modern architectures for HPC computation

Review of modern architecture: details about memory hierarchy etc..etc.

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

09:00 Modern architectures for HPC computation 45'

Speaker:	Stefano Cozzini (CNR/INFM Democritos and Sissa/eLab, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

09:45 - 10:30 Using Compilers and Profilers to Optimize your Code for Performance

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

09:45 Using Compilers and Profilers to Optimize your Code for Performance 45'

Speaker:	Stefano Cozzini (CNR/INFM Democritos and Sissa/eLab, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 10:30 Coffee Break 30'

11:00 - 11:45 Mathematical Libraries part I

review the main libraries for linear algebra and fftw

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

11:00 Mathematical Libraries part I 45'

Speaker:	Axel Kohlmeyer (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A.)
Material:	lecture notes

11:45 - 12:30 Mathematical Libraries Part II

Petcs and other toolkits..

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

11:45 Mathematical Libraries Part II 45'

Speaker:	Luca Heltai (S.I.S.S.A. - International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'

14:00 - 14:20 The EuroAfrica-ICT project

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

14:00 The EuroAfrica-ICT project 20'

Speaker:	Peter McGrath (TWAS, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

14:20 - 16:00 Laboratory part 1: Optimize simple codes provided by Lab; Measure memory hierarchy speed
```
Exercise Instructions available here:

http://www.democritos.it/hpc-wiki/index.php/Main/OptimizeSimpleCodesProvidedByLab

http://www.democritos.it/hpc-wiki/index.php/Main/MeasureMemoryHierarchySpeed
```
Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 14:20 Laboratory part 1: Optimize simple codes provided by Lab; Measure memory hierarchy speed 1h40'
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
16:30 - 18:30 Laboratory Part 2: Play with mathematical libraries
```
Exercise Instructions are here: 

http://www.democritos.it/hpc-wiki/index.php/Main/ComparePerformancesOfDifferentOptimizedLibrariesOnMatrixMultiplication
```
Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 16:30 Laboratory Part 2: Play with mathematical libraries 2h0'
18:30 - 18:45 Homework: blog about the day

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 18:30 Homework: blog about the day 15'

Thursday, 6 November 2008

09:00 - 09:45 Parallel Computing with Linux: the cluster approach..

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

09:00 Parallel Computing with Linux: the cluster approach.. 45'

Speaker:	Stefano Cozzini (CNR/INFM Democritos and Sissa/eLab, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

09:45 - 10:30 Introduction to Grid computing

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

09:45 Introduction to Grid computing 45'

Speaker:	Giuliano Taffoni (INAF, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 10:30 Coffee Break 30'

11:00 - 12:00 Introduction to MPI

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

11:00 Introduction to MPI 1h0'

Speaker:	Luca Heltai (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

12:00 - 12:30 General instructions on compiling MPI codes on clusters

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

12:00 General instructions on compiling MPI codes on clusters 30'

Speaker:	Ershaad A. Basheer (JNCASR, Bangalore, India)
Material:	lecture notes

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
14:00 - 16:00 Laboratory part 1: install MPI libraries and run parallel codes on your workstation
```
Exercise Instructions are here: 

http://www.democritos.it/hpc-wiki/index.php/Main/TestSimpleMPIProgramsOnASingleProcessor
```
Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 14:00 Laboratory part 1: install MPI libraries and run parallel codes on your workstation 2h0'
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
16:30 - 18:30 Laboratory Part 2: Set up Mini Clusters to Test MPI
```
Exercise Instructions are here: 

http://www.democritos.it/hpc-wiki/index.php/Main/SetUpMiniClustersToTestMPIOnTrueParallelMachines
```
Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 16:30 Laboratory Part 2: Set up Mini Clusters to Test MPI 2h0'
18:30 - 19:15 Homework: blog about the day

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 18:30 Homework: blog about the day 45'

Friday, 7 November 2008

09:00 - 09:30 How to benchmark your application

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

09:00 How to benchmark your application 30'

Speaker:	Stefano Cozzini (CNR/INFM Democritos and Sissa/eLab, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

09:30 - 10:15 How to find the best resources for your Application

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

09:30 How to find the best resources for your Application 45'

Speaker:	Shawn T. Brown (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, U.S.A.)
Material:	lecture notes

10:15 - 11:00 Introduction to OpenMP ( first part)

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

10:15 Introduction to OpenMP ( first part) 45'

Speaker:	Shawn T. Brown (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, U.S.A.)
Material:	lecture notes

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 11:00 Coffee Break 30'

11:30 - 12:30 Error Messages and Debugging

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

11:30 Error Messages and Debugging 1h0'

Speaker:	Axel Kohlmeyer (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A.)
Material:	lecture notes

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
14:00 - 16:00 Question&Answer open session
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```
Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 14:00 Question&Answer open session 2h0'
  
  Speaker: Axel Kohlmeyer/Stefano Cozzini (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A. / CNR-INFM Democritos)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
16:30 - 18:30 Laboratory Session second session: OpenMP examples Use of OpenMP threaded libraries
```
http://www.democritos.it/hpc-wiki/index.php/Main/OpenMPExamples

http://www.democritos.it/hpc-wiki/index.php/Main/UseOfOpenMPThreadedLibraries
```
Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 16:30 Laboratory Session second session: OpenMP examples Use of OpenMP threaded libraries 2h0'
18:30 - 19:15 Homework: blog about the day

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 18:30 Homework: blog about the day 45'

Saturday, 8 November 2008
- 09:00 - 10:30 MPI tutorial: first part
  - 09:00 MPI tutorial: first part 1h30'
    
    Speaker: Axel Kohlmeyer / Shawn T. Brown (University of Penn., Philadelphia, U.S.A. / CMU, PSC, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.)
- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
  - 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
- 11:00 - 12:30 MPI tutorial: part 2
  - 11:00 MPI tutorial: part 2 1h30'
    
    Speaker: Axel Kohlmeyer / Shawn T. Brown (Un. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A. / CMU, PSC, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.)
- 12:00 - 17:00 Lunch and free time
  - 12:00 Lunch and free time 5h0'

Monday, 10 November 2008

09:00 - 09:10 Presentation of the second week activities

Location:

Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

09:00 Presentation of the second week activities 10'

Speaker:	Stefano Cozzini/Axel Kohlmeyer (CNR-INFM Democritos, Trieste, Italy/University of Penn., Philadelphia, U.S.A.)
Material:	lecture notes

09:10 - 09:45 Introduction to GPU programming in the nvidia CUDA environment

Location:

Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

09:10 Introduction to GPU programming in the nvidia CUDA environment 35'

Speaker:	Ershaad A. Basheer (JNCASR, Bangalore, India)
Material:	lecture notes

09:45 - 10:30 Introduction to GPU programming in the nvidia CUDA environment (second part)

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 09:45 Introduction to GPU programming in the nvidia CUDA environment (second part) 45'
  
  Speaker: Ershaad A. Basheer (JNCASR, Bangalore, India)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 10:30 Coffee Break 30'

11:00 - 12:00 Installation procedures for clusters

Location:

Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

11:00 Installation procedures for clusters 1h0'

Speaker:	Moreno Baricevic (CNR/INFM Democritos, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

11:00 - 12:30 Grid tutorial part 1: introduction to gLite and Gridseed

Location:

Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.

11:00 Grid tutorial part 1: introduction to gLite and Gridseed 1h30'

Speaker:

Antun Balaz / Stefano Cozzini (Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Rep. of Serbia /CNR/INFM Democritos and Sissa/eLab, Trieste, Italy)

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break and transfer to SISSA lab
- 12:00 Lunch Break and transfer to SISSA lab 2h0'
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
- 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'

14:00 - 16:00 Grid tutorial 2: Security and basic Job Submission

Location:

Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.

14:00 Grid tutorial 2: Security and basic Job Submission 2h0'

Speaker:

Riccardo Murri / Antun Balaz (Swiss Centre for Scientific Computing, Manno, Switzerland/Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Republic o)

14:00 - 18:00 LAB Session: Installation Procedure for a Cluster Master Node
```
http://www.democritos.it/hpc-wiki/index.php/Main/InstallationProcedureForAClusterMasterHeadNode
```
Location: - Room alternative: SISSA MediaLab
- 14:00 LAB Session: Installation Procedure for a Cluster Master Node 4h0'
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
- 16:00 Coffee Break 30'

16:30 - 18:30 Grid tutorial part 3: data management

Location:

Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.

16:30 Grid tutorial part 3: data management 2h0'

Speaker:	Giuliano Taffoni (INAF/OATS, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

Tuesday, 11 November 2008

09:00 - 09:45 Queue systems for HPC platform

Location:

Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

09:00 Queue systems for HPC platform 45'

Speaker:	Piero Calucci (S.I.S.S.A. - International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

09:45 - 10:05 High Bandwidth Data Transfer

Location:

Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

09:45 High Bandwidth Data Transfer 20'

Speaker:	Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernadez (Laboratoire Informatique de Grenoble, France)
Material:	lecture notes

10:05 - 10:30 Modeling and Evaluation of Performance of Scalable Architectures (Grid/Cluster Monitoring tools and procedures)

Location:

Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

10:05 Modeling and Evaluation of Performance of Scalable Architectures (Grid/Cluster Monitoring tools and procedures) 25'

Speaker:	Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernadez (Laboratoire Informatique de Grenoble, France)
Material:	lecture notes

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 10:30 Coffee Break 30'

11:00 - 12:00 How to set-up a Queue system on your cluster

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

11:00 How to set-up a Queue system on your cluster 1h0'

Speaker:	Piero Calucci (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

11:00 - 12:30 Grid Tutorial part 4: advanced job submission

Location:

Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.

11:00 Grid Tutorial part 4: advanced job submission 1h30'

Speaker:	Antun Balaz (Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia)
Material:	lecture notes

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
- 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
14:00 - 16:00 Grid tutorial hands-on session on data management and advanced job submission

Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
- 14:00 Grid tutorial hands-on session on data management and advanced job submission 2h0'
  
  Speaker: Giuliano Taffoni (INAF/OATS, Trieste, Italy)
14:00 - 18:00 Installing and configuring PBS and monitoring services
- 14:00 Installing and configuring PBS and monitoring services 4h0'
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
- 16:00 Coffee Break 30'

16:30 - 18:30 Grid Tutorial part 5: how to port application on the grid and parallel computing on the GRID

We will present a general overview how to port application on the grid and then we will focus on: 

-MPI approach on the GRID 
-SMP calculation on the GRID
-client/server mechanisms

Location:

Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.

16:30 Grid Tutorial part 5: how to port application on the grid and parallel computing on the GRID 2h0'

Speaker:	Stefano Cozzini / Riccardo di Meo (CNR/INFM Democritos and Sissa/eLab, Trieste, Italy/S.I.S.S.A. - International School for Advanced St)
Material:	lecture notes

Wednesday, 12 November 2008

09:00 - 09:45 An Introduction to the Lustre Parallel File System

Location:

Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

09:00 An Introduction to the Lustre Parallel File System 45'

Speaker:	Piero Calucci (S.I.S.S.A. - International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

09:45 - 10:30 Rocks: what is and how to install it

Location:

Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

09:45 Rocks: what is and how to install it 45'

Speaker:	Jorge Zuluaga (CRESCA- Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia)
Material:	lecture notes

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
- 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
11:00 - 12:00 DEMO on I/O procedures by PANASAS

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 11:00 DEMO on I/O procedures by PANASAS 1h0'
11:00 - 12:30 Grid Tutorial 7: problem assignments to participants

Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
- 11:00 Grid Tutorial 7: problem assignments to participants 1h30'
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
- 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
14:00 - 16:00 Grid LAB: personal/group work on assigned problems

Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
- 14:00 Grid LAB: personal/group work on assigned problems 2h0'
14:00 - 18:00 Lab: I/O configuration and Infiniband installation
- 14:00 Lab: I/O configuration and Infiniband installation 4h0'
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
- 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
16:30 - 18:30 GRID LAB: personal/group work on assigned problems

Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
- 16:30 GRID LAB: personal/group work on assigned problems 2h0'

Thursday, 13 November 2008
- 09:00 - 09:30 Panasas presentation
  - 09:00 Panasas presentation 30'
- 09:30 - 09:50 E4 presentation
  - 09:30 E4 presentation 20'
- 09:50 - 10:10 Eurotech presentation
  - 09:50 Eurotech presentation 20'
- 10:10 - 10:30 IBM presentation
  - 10:10 IBM presentation 20'
- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
  - 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
- 11:00 - 12:20 Special Topic: How to organize a similar school in your country/institute
```
We will discuss with interested people how to setup a similar event in other places with or without the help of ICTP.

Logistic details (how/where to submit a proposal ) and technical ones as well will be discussed.
```
  Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
  - 11:00 Special Topic: How to organize a similar school in your country/institute 1h20'
    
    Speaker: Stefano Cozzini/Axel Kohlmeyer (CNR-INFM Democritos, Trieste, Italy/University of Penn., Philadelphia, U.S.A.)
- 12:20 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  - 12:20 Lunch Break 1h40'
- 14:00 - 15:30 CEI Round Table
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Participants coming from CEI countries will discuss future regional initiatives in the area of HPC/GRID 
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  - 14:00 CEI Round Table 1h30'
- 14:00 - 16:00 GRID Lab: personal/group work on assigned problems
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
  - 14:00 GRID Lab: personal/group work on assigned problems 2h0'
- 14:00 - 18:00 Final Lab: completing all the exercises proposed
  - 14:00 Final Lab: completing all the exercises proposed 4h0'
- 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
  - 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
- 16:30 - 18:30 GRID LAB: personal/group work on assigned problems
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
  - 16:30 GRID LAB: personal/group work on assigned problems 2h0'

Friday, 14 November 2008

09:00 - 09:45 Future Perspectives in GRID and HPC

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

09:00 Future Perspectives in GRID and HPC 45'

Speaker:	Stefano Cozzini/Axel Kohlmeyer (CNR-INFM Democritos, Trieste, Italy/University of Penn., Philadelphia, U.S.A.)
Material:	lecture notes

09:45 - 10:30 Presentations from Participants
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15 minutes each 
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Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 09:45 Presentations from Participants 45'
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
11:00 - 12:00 Presentations from Participants

Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
- 11:00 Presentations from Participants 1h0'

12:00 - 12:30 Wrap-up and conclusions

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

12:00 Wrap-up and conclusions 30'

Speaker:

Stefano Cozzini / Axel Kohlmeyer (CNR/INFM Democritos and Sissa/eLab, Trieste, Italy / University of Penn., Philadelphia, U.S.A)