CERN openlab - openlab phase III

CERN openlab/Intel Parallelism, Compilers and Performance Workshop

Mary Touranakou — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 13:27:02 +0000

Date:

Monday, 12 May, 2014 (All day) to Wednesday, 14 May, 2014 (All day)

Location:

CERN Building 30 Kjell Johnsen Auditorium

The aim of the lectures and exercises contained in this 3-day workshop is to give the attendees a practical introduction to parallel programming, performance optimization and compilers. Linux systems on modern servers will be used as a base. Several experts, including one from Intel, will lead the event and help you improve your knowledge by providing a complete view of the modern PC computing platform. Hands-on labs are also planned where participants will be able to improve their understanding of the course in practical environments, guided by the speakers.

Key intricacies of parallel programming will be explained, along with the most efficient solutions to common multi-threading problems, using modern parallelization environments compatible with C and C++. Performance tuning and computer architecture are also important topics on the agenda, closely linked to the seven performance dimensions of PC servers.

Pre-requisites:

Familiarity with the C and C++ programming languages
Knowledge of Linux
Basic understanding of modern computer architecture and compilers

Morning lectures will be held in the Kjell Johnsen Auditorium in bldg. 30, while afternoon labs in the Technical Training Center (bldg. 593), starting at 9 am on all three days.

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To attend, please register in EDH (first come first served)

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40 years of computing - Sverre Jarp Symposium

Melissa Gaillard — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 14:38:05 +0000

Date:

Monday, 31 March, 2014 - 14:00 to 17:30

Location:

CERN IT Auditorium

This symposium will review several important technological (r-)evolutions Sverre has seen during his long career at CERN. Examples are the introduction of reliable tape storage, the introduction of the PC as the Physics Computer for LHC (first presented at CHEP-95), multiple decades of hunting for cost effective computing (from mainframes to RISC servers and then to PCs), the efforts of detailed performance tuning (in 7 dimensions), vectorisation of HEP software (which was dropped in the 80s, but is now back with a vengeance), and, finally, more than a decade of industrial collaboration in CERN openlab.

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Symposium agenda

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CERN IT Colloquium

Ioannis Georgopoulos — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:46:12 +0000

Date Published:

Tuesday, 27 January, 2009

Recording of the the talk 'Inspiring Innovations', delivered by Craig Barrett, Intel Chairman, during his visit at CERN. For more information, follow this URL: openlab-mu-internal.web.cern.ch/openlab-mu-internal/01_Events/Event_pages/2009/09-01_Inspiring_Innovation/09-01_Inspiring_Innovation.htm

Computing Seminar at CERN delivered by Intel

Ioannis Georgopoulos — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:34:06 +0000

Date Published:

Friday, 7 May, 2010

Computing Seminar given by Kathleen Knobe from Intel, at CERN, on 7th May 2010 on 'Concurrent Collections (CnC): A new approach to parallel programming'. For more information, follow this URL: http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=91517 .

Computing Seminar at CERN delivered by Intel

Ioannis Georgopoulos — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:27:24 +0000

Date Published:

Tuesday, 11 May, 2010

The Computing Seminar given by Jeffrey Arnold, from Intel, at CERN on 11th May 2010 on 'Software Aspects of IEEE Floating-Point Computations for Numerical Applications in High Energy Physics'. For more information, follow this URL: http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=91439.

Intel keynote at ISC'10

Ioannis Georgopoulos — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:15:30 +0000

Date Published:

Sunday, 30 May, 2010

The Intel keynote at ISC'10 presented by Kirk B. Skaugen, Vice President Intel Corporation and General manager Data Center Group. Featuring Sverre Jarp, CERN openlab CTO, from minute 34.

Industry Awards Ceremony

Ioannis Georgopoulos — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:11:18 +0000

Date Published:

Wednesday, 20 October, 2010

Two videos presenting the key sessions of the Industry Awards Ceremony: - Part 1 presents the speeches delivered during the first session in the afternoon. The LHC Computing session starts minute 106 of this recording. - Part 2 is dedicated to the awards: the LHC Computing Awards' session starts minute 10.

HP Video

Ioannis Georgopoulos — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:05:10 +0000

Date Published:

Friday, 27 May, 2011

Video from HP, including Jean Michel Jouanigot, Communications Systems group leader, IT Department, CERN.

Intel Developer Forum 2011

Ioannis Georgopoulos — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:02:03 +0000

Date Published:

Thursday, 15 September, 2011

The keynote presentation from Justin Rattner, Intel Vice President and CTO, Senior Fellow and head of Intel Labs at the Intel Developer Forum 2011, featuring Andrzej Nowak, CERN openlab researcher (from minute 12).

Parallel Likelihood Function Evaluation on Heterogeneous Many-core Systems

Ioannis Georgopoulos — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:05:20 +0000

Date published:

Wednesday, 2 November, 2011

Document type:

Conference paper

Author(s):

A. Lazzaro

S. Jarp

J. Leduc

A. Nowak

Y. Sneen Lindal

This paper describes a parallel implementation that allows the evaluations of the likelihood function for data analysis methods to run cooperatively on heterogeneous computational devices (i.e. CPU and GPU) belonging to a single computational node. The implementation is able to split and balance the workload needed for the evaluation of the likelihood function in corresponding sub-workloads to be executed in parallel on each computational device. The CPU parallelization is implemented using OpenMP, while the GPU implementation is based on OpenCL. The comparison of the performance of these implementations for different configurations and different hardware systems are reported. Tests are based on a real data analysis carried out in the high energy physics community.

Event published at:

International Conference on Parallel Computing, ParCo2011

Technical document file:

CERN-IT-2011-012.pdf

CERN openlab Communications

Morag Hickman — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:25:36 +0000

Author(s):

M. Le Jeune

Date presented:

Thursday, 29 January, 2009

Event presented at:

6th openlab Major Review Meeting - 29th January 2009

Presentation file:

CERN openlab Communications i.pdf

The CINBAD Project

Morag Hickman — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:25:14 +0000

Author(s):

R. Jurga, M. Hulboj

Date presented:

Thursday, 29 January, 2009

Event presented at:

6th openlab Major Review Meeting - 29th January 2009

Presentation file:

The CINBAD Project i.pdf

Grid Interoperability Projects

Morag Hickman — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:24:48 +0000

Author(s):

X. Gréhant, S. Jarp

Date presented:

Thursday, 29 January, 2009

Event presented at:

6th openlab Major Review Meeting - 29th January 2009

Presentation file:

Grid Interoperability Projects.pdf

Update on Grid Monitoring Solutions

Morag Hickman — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:24:18 +0000

Author(s):

M. Böhm

Date presented:

Thursday, 29 January, 2009

Event presented at:

6th openlab Major Review Meeting - 29th January 2009

Presentation file:

Update on Grid Monitoring Solutions.pdf

Update on MSG Messaging System for the Grid

Morag Hickman — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:23:43 +0000

Author(s):

D. Rodrigues

Date presented:

Thursday, 29 January, 2009

Event presented at:

6th openlab Major Review Meeting - 29th January 2009

Presentation file:

Update on MSG Messaging System for the Grid.pdf