CERN Accelerating science

Announcing the CERN openlab / Intel - Winter 2012 Numerical COmputing Workshop

Tuesday, 7 February, 2012

The workshop is targeted people with good programming experience who would like to understand and control the floating-point calculations in their scientific programs.

► Some of the topics are:

  • Advanced Floating point computing on x86

  • Pitfalls in High Energy Physics software

  • Floating point control in Intel Software

  • Future directions in accuracy control

  • Hands-on tutorials

The workshop is organized by CERN openlab and Intel for users affiliated with CERN, free of charge at this time. Registrations are based on a first-come first-served basis. Please note that for the hands-on labs you need to bring a portable computer with you to access the servers that will be used for the exercises. Go to indico in order to register. All registrations will be confirmed by e-mail – a registration in indico is required and does not yet guarantee a place in the workshop.