Scientific Calendar Event



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  • Monday, 11 April 2011
    • 08:30 - 10:00 REGISTRATION
      Visitors whose stay expenses are borne by the ICTP are required to register at Desk, outside Kastler lecture room.
      
      • 08:30 REGISTRATION 1h30'
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Introduction to the School
      S. Cozzini, CNR/IOM/Uos/SISSA - Trieste; 
      G. Taffoni, Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste;
      A. Balaz, Scientific Computing Laboratory - Belgrade; 
      
      • 10:00 Introduction to the School 30'
        Speaker:
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      All coffee breaks will be served outside the Kastler lecture room throughout.
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:45 A review of Important Concepts on HPC and GRID computing
      • 11:00 A review of Important Concepts on HPC and GRID computing 1h45'
        Speaker: Giuliano Taffoni
    • 12:45 - 14:00 LUNCH
      • 12:45 LUNCH 1h15'
    • 13:30 - 14:00 REGISTRATION
      All guests visiting at no cost to the ICTP are required to REGISTER at desk, outside Kastler lecture room
      
      • 13:30 REGISTRATION 30'
    • 14:00 - 16:00 An overview of Implicit parallelism
      • 14:00 An overview of Implicit parallelism 2h0'
        Speaker: Amjad Ali (Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan - Pakistan)
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffeee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
      • 16:00 Coffeee Break 30'
    • 16:30 - 17:30 Advanced profiling technique
      • 16:30 Advanced profiling technique 1h0'
        Speaker: Antun Balaz
  • Tuesday, 12 April 2011
    • 09:00 - 10:30 General technical Intel HPC outlook 2011-2013
      • 09:00 General technical Intel HPC outlook 2011-2013 1h30'
        Speaker: Pawel Gepner (Intel, Swindon - United Kingdom)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:30 Core Performance Optimization - Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge
      • 11:00 Core Performance Optimization - Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge 1h30'
        Speaker: Chris Dahnken (Intel, Munich - Germany)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
      • 12:30 LUNCH 1h30'
    • 13:30 - 14:00 REGISTRATION Station Open
      All visitors (who have not yet registered) are required to do so at this time
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
      • 13:30 REGISTRATION Station Open 30'
    • 14:00 - 16:00 Intel tools for HPC
      • 14:00 Intel tools for HPC 2h0'
        Speaker: Chris Dahnken
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:30 - 18:30 Lab session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
      • 16:30 Lab session 2h0'
    • 19:30 - 19:30 WELCOME RECEPTION
      Invitation is reserved for Directors, Lecturers, Tutors and Participants of the School
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 19:30 WELCOME RECEPTION
  • Wednesday, 13 April 2011
    • 09:00 - 10:30 MPI programming: introduction to advanced techniques
      • 09:00 MPI programming: introduction to advanced techniques 1h30'
        Speaker: Sebsibe Dadi (University of Addis Ababa)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:30 Mixed openMP/MPI approach
      • 11:00 Mixed openMP/MPI approach 1h30'
        Speaker: Amjad Ali
    • 12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
      • 12:30 LUNCH 1h30'
    • 13:30 - 14:00 REGISTRATION Station Open
      All visitors (who have not yet registered) are required to do so at this time
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
      • 13:30 REGISTRATION Station Open 30'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Introduction to scientific data management
      • 14:00 Introduction to scientific data management 1h0'
        Speaker: Russel Rew (UCAR Unidata, Boulder - United States of America)
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Introduction to Netcdf
      • 15:00 Introduction to Netcdf 1h0'
        Speaker: Russel Rew
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:30 - 18:30 Lab sessions
      Room: Laboratory
      • 16:30 Lab sessions 2h0'
  • Thursday, 14 April 2011
    • 09:00 - 10:30 Advanced Netcdf
      • 09:00 Advanced Netcdf 1h30'
        Speaker: Russel Rew
    • 10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
      • 10:30 coffee break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:30 pNFS&Panasas parallel filesystem
      • 11:00 pNFS&Panasas parallel filesystem 1h30'
        Speaker: Boaz Harrosh (Panasas, Tel Aviv - Israel)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
      • 12:30 LUNCH 1h30'
    • 13:30 - 14:00 REGISTRATION Station Open
      All visitors (who have not yet registered) are required to do so at this time
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
      • 13:30 REGISTRATION Station Open 30'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Parallel filesystem: GPFS
      • 14:00 Parallel filesystem: GPFS 1h0'
        Speaker: Walter Bernocchi (IBM, Milan - Italy)
    • 15:00 - 16:00 IBM Engineering Cloud: Vision and Perspective
      • 15:00 IBM Engineering Cloud: Vision and Perspective 1h0'
        Speaker: Walter Bernocchi
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:30 - 17:30 GPU programming ( part 1)
      • 16:30 GPU programming ( part 1) 1h0'
        Speaker: Massimo Bernaschi (CNR Caspur, Rome - Italy)
    • 17:30 - 19:30 Lab sessions
      Room: Laboratory
      • 17:30 Lab sessions 2h0'
  • Friday, 15 April 2011
    • 09:00 - 10:30 GPU programming (part 2&3)
      • 09:00 GPU programming (part 2&3) 1h30'
        Speaker: Massimo Bernaschi
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:45 GPU programming (part 4)
      • 11:00 GPU programming (part 4) 45'
        Speaker: Massimo Bernaschi
    • 11:45 - 12:30 CPUs vs GPUs: some benchmarks
      • 11:45 CPUs vs GPUs: some benchmarks 45'
        Speaker: Piero Altoe (E4 Computer Engineering SpA., Scondiano - Italy)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
      • 12:30 LUNCH 1h30'
    • 13:30 - 14:00 REGISTRATION Station Open
      Last day for Registration
      All visitors (who have not yet registered) are required to do so today 
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
      • 13:30 REGISTRATION Station Open 30'
    • 14:00 - 14:45 GPU exploitation: a success story
      • 14:00 GPU exploitation: a success story 45'
        Speaker: Massimo Bernaschi
    • 14:45 - 16:00 Lab session 1
      Room: Laboratory
      • 14:45 Lab session 1 1h15'
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:30 - 18:30 Lab session 2
      Room: Laboratory
      • 16:30 Lab session 2 2h0'
  • Saturday, 16 April 2011
    • 09:00 - 09:30 Wrap-up of the first week activities
      Stefano Cozzini
      Antun Balaz
      Giuliano Taffoni
      • 09:00 Wrap-up of the first week activities 30'
    • 09:30 - 10:30 Project discussion
      Each participant/ team will discuss a 5 minute talk the project to be performed on the second week 
      • 09:30 Project discussion 1h0'
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:30 Project discussion
      Each participant/team will discuss (5 minutes) the project to be performed in the second week 
      • 11:00 Project discussion 1h30'
  • Monday, 18 April 2011
    • 09:00 - 10:30 Morning Session I
      Room: Laboratory
      • 09:00 Morning Session I 1h30'
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:45 Morning Session II
      Room: Laboratory
      • 11:00 Morning Session II 1h45'
    • 12:45 - 14:00 LUNCH
      • 12:45 LUNCH 1h15'
    • 14:00 - 16:00 Afternoon Session 1
      Room: Laboratory
      • 14:00 Afternoon Session 1 2h0'
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffe Break
      • 16:00 Coffe Break 30'
    • 16:30 - 18:30 Afternoon Session II
      Room: Laboratory
      • 16:30 Afternoon Session II 2h0'
  • Tuesday, 19 April 2011
    • 09:00 - 10:30 Morning session I
      Room: Laboratory
      • 09:00 Morning session I 1h30'
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:45 Introduction To cloud Computing and elastic-R
      • 11:00 Introduction To cloud Computing and elastic-R 1h45'
        Speaker: Karim Chine (Cloud Era Ltd., Cambridge - United Kingdom)
    • 12:45 - 14:00 LUNCH
      • 12:45 LUNCH 1h15'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 IBM BlueGene architecture
      • 14:00 IBM BlueGene architecture 1h0'
        Speaker: Giorgi Richelli (IBM)
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Afternoon Session I
      Room: Laboratory
      • 15:00 Afternoon Session I 1h0'
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:30 - 18:30 Afternoon Session II
      Room: Laboratory
      • 16:30 Afternoon Session II 2h0'
  • Wednesday, 20 April 2011
    • 09:00 - 10:30 Morning Session (I)
      Room: Laboratory
      • 09:00 Morning Session (I) 1h30'
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:45 Experiences in managing Petabyte of DATA (TBC)
      • 11:00 Experiences in managing Petabyte of DATA (TBC) 1h45'
        Speaker: Massimo Lamanna (CERN, Geneva)
    • 12:45 - 14:00 LUNCH
      • 12:45 LUNCH 1h15'
    • 14:00 - 16:00 Afternoon Session (I)
      Room: Laboratory
      • 14:00 Afternoon Session (I) 2h0'
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:30 - 18:30 Afternoon Session (II)
      Room: Laboratory
      • 16:30 Afternoon Session (II) 2h0'
  • Thursday, 21 April 2011
    • 09:00 - 10:30 Morning Session I
      Room: Laboratory
      • 09:00 Morning Session I 1h30'
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:30 Morning Session I
      Room: Laboratory
      • 11:00 Morning Session I 1h30'
    • 12:45 - 14:00 LUNCH
      • 12:45 LUNCH 1h15'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 INFN-APE project: dedicated supercomputers for theoretical physics simulations
      • 14:00 INFN-APE project: dedicated supercomputers for theoretical physics simulations 1h0'
        Speaker: Piero Vicini (INFN, Rome - Italy)
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Afternoon Session (I)
      Room: Laboratory
      • 15:00 Afternoon Session (I) 1h0'
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:30 - 18:30 Afternoon Session II
      Room: Laboratory
      • 16:30 Afternoon Session II 2h0'
  • Friday, 22 April 2011
    • 09:00 - 10:30 Selected presentation by Participants (I)
      • 09:00 Selected presentation by Participants (I) 1h30'
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:30 Selected presentations by Participants (II)
      • 11:00 Selected presentations by Participants (II) 1h30'
    • 12:30 - 12:50 Closing Remarks
      Stefano Cozzini,
      Antun Balaz,
      Giuliano Taffoni. 
      • 12:30 Closing Remarks 20'