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Start Time:

5 March 2007 at 08:30

Ends On:

16 March 2007

Location:

Trieste - Italy

Venue:

AGH (Kastler & Lundqvist Lecture Halls)

Organizer(s):

Directors: Stefano Cozzini, Axel Kohlmeyer, Roger Rousseau

Description:

Commercial Sponsors:


Eurotech (both Financial & Hardware Support)


HP and Mycroft (Hardware Support), Personal thanks to Martin Walker


Mellanox (Hardware Support)


IBM (Hardware Support)


Spring Firm(Financial Support)


NSRC (Book Donations)

Material:

no notes available

WEEK 1: INTRODUCTORY TOPICS - Monday, 5 March, Linux

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

5 March 2007
08:30
10:00
Registration & Administrative Formalities
01h30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
10:00
10:30
Coffee Break
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
10:30
10:45
Welcome Address and Introduction to Course Goals
15'
S. Cozzini, A. Kohlmeyer, R. Rousseau
10:45
11:45
Introduction to HPC. Questions
01h00'
S. Cozzini
CNR-INFM/Democritos, Trieste
11:45
12:45
Basic Linux commands and Shell scripts. Questions
01h00'
J. Montoya
SISSA, Trieste
12:45
14:00
Lunch Break
01h15'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
14:00
15:00
More about Linux, Networking, Basic Configuration of Workstation, NFS, NIS. Questions
01h00'
R. Rousseau
SISSA, Trieste
15:00
15:30
Coffee Break
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
15:30
18:30
Laboratory Session: Installing & Setting up your own Linux Workstation
03h00'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
18:30
19:00
Homeworks: Answer simple tests update your blog
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
Tuesday, 6 March, Basic Concepts of Scientific Programming

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

6 March 2007
09:00
10:00
Floating Points Numbers: How to work with them correctly and efficiently
01h00'
S. Cozzini
CNR-INFM/Democritos, Trieste
10:00
10:30
Coffee Break
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
10:30
11:30
From Source Code to Executable: Preprocessing/Compiling/Linking. Questions
01h00'
G. Diaz Toro
Univ. de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela
11:30
12:30
Using Makefiles to build and test codes on Multiple Platforms
01h00'
A. Kohlmeyer
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
12:30
12:40
Wget: A Tool for Downloading on Slow Networks
10'
M. Verissino Alves
I.C.T.P., Trieste
12:40
14:00
Lunch Break
01h20'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
14:00
16:00
Laboratory Part 1: Installing the GNU, PGI & Intel Compiler Packages
02h00'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
16:00
16:10
Coffee Break
10'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
16:10
18:30
Laboratory Part 2: Test the Compilers & play with FP Numbers
02h20'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
19:00
21:00
RECEPTION
02h00'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
Wednesday, 7 March, Optimization of Code

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

7 March 2007
09:00
10:00
Storage Performance Hierarchy and how this affects Performances. Questions
01h00'
R. Rousseau
SISSA, Trieste
10:00
10:30
Coffee Break
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
10:30
11:30
Using Compilers and Profilers to Optimize your Code for Performance
01h00'
S. Cozzini
CNR-INFM/Democritos, Trieste
11:30
12:30
Performance Libraries for Mathematical Application
01h00'
R. Rousseau
SISSA, Trieste
12:30
14:00
Lunch Break
01h30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
14:00
16:30
Laboratory Part 1: Optimize simple codes provided by Lab. Measure memory hierarchy speed
02h30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
16:30
17:00
Coffee Break
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
17:00
19:00
Laboratory Part 2: Optimize a black box code provided by Lab. Compare performances of different optimized libraries on matrix multiplication
02h00'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
Thursday, 8 March, Introduction to Parallel Programme

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

8 March 2007
09:00
10:00
Hardware/Software for Parallel Computing with Linux
01h00'
R. Rousseau
SISSA, Trieste
10:00
10:30
Coffee Break
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
10:30
11:30
Introduction to MPI, Part 1
01h00'
S. Cozzini
CNR-INFM/Democritos, Trieste
11:30
12:30
Introduction to MPI, Part 2
01h00'
A. Kohlmeyer
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
12:30
14:00
Lunch Break
01h30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
14:00
16:30
Laboratory Part 1: Test Simple MPI Programs on a Single Processor
02h30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
16:30
17:00
Coffee Break
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
17:00
19:00
Laboratory Part 2: Set up Mini Clusters to Test MPI on True Parallel Machines
02h00'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
Friday, 9 March, Special Topics

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

9 March 2007
09:00
10:00
How to find the best resources for your Application
01h00'
R. Rousseau
SISSA, Trieste
10:00
10:30
Coffee Break
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
10:30
11:30
Introduction to Open MP
01h00'
S. Cozzini
CNR-INFM/Democritos, Trieste
11:30
12:30
Queues systems and how to use Torque/Maui
01h00'
P. Calucci
SISSA, Trieste
12:30
14:00
Lunch Break
01h30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
14:00
15:00
Error Messages and Debugging
01h00'
A. Kohlmeyer
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
15:00
16:30
Laboratory Session: OpenMP examples Use of OpenMP threaded libraries
01h30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
16:30
17:00
Coffee Break
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
17:00
19:00
Laboratory Session: Use real parallel machines to run MPI benchmarks
02h00'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
Saturday, 10 March, No Lectures, Labs available to participants to complete or repeat exercises from the previous days and work on their own software (Saturday)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.

Sunday, 11 March, No Lectures, Labs available to participants to complete or repeat exercises from the previous days and work on their own software (Sunday)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.

WEEK 2: ADVANCED TOPICS - Monday, 12 March, Parallel Applications and Clusters

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

12 March 2007
09:00
09:15
Introduction to Week 2: How to work
15'
R. Rousseau
SISSA, Trieste
09:15
10:45
Advanced MPI tutorial
01h30'
A. Kohlmeyer
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphis, USA
10:45
11:15
Coffee Break
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
11:15
12:00
Cluster in Box
45'
N. Paklovic
Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
12:00
13:30
Lunch Break
01h30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
13:30
14:30
Installation procedures for clusters
01h00'
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
01h30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
16:00
16:30
Coffee Break
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
16:30
19:30
Laboratory work continues
03h00'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
Tuesday, 13 March, I/O Issues

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

13 March 2007
09:00
10:30
I/O Part 1: I/O Issues in HPC and Introduction to Parallel Filsystem
01h30'
A. Kohlmeyer
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
10:30
11:00
Coffee Break
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
11:00
12:30
Short tutorial on GRID computing
01h30'
S, Cozzini,CNR-INFM/Democritos, Trieste;
R. Murri, EGRID ICTP Project, G. Diaz, Cecalcula ULA Merida
12:30
14:00
Lunch Break
01h30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
14:00
14:30
GReIC Project: Towards Grid-DataBase Management System
30'
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
01h00'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
15:30
16:00
Coffee Break
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
16:00
19:30
Laboratory work continues
03h30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
Wednesday, 14 March, QUEUE SYSTEMS/GRID etc..

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

14 March 2007
09:00
09:45
Setting up Queues systems (TORQUE + Maui)
45'
P. Calucci
SISSA, Trieste
09:45
10:30
Mellanox Infiniband Overview
45'
E. Cohen
Mellanox, Israel
10:30
11:00
Coffee Break
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
11:00
12:00
Again on GRID computing: a few general concepts
01h00'
G. Diaz
Univ. de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela
12:00
13:30
Lunch Break
01h30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
13:30
14:30
01h00'
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
01h00'
15:30
16:00
Coffee Break
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
16:00
19:30
Laboratory work continues
03h30'
Thursday, 15 March, HPC in Developing World

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

15 March 2007
09:15
09:50
Setting up and maintaining HPC resources in West Africa
35'
E. Ofori
AITI-KACE, Accra, Ghana
09:50
10:20
HPC experiences in South East Europe
30'
A. Balaz
Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia
10:20
10:50
Coffee Break
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
11:00
11:30
HPC in India
30'
B. Sundaram
JNCASR, Bangalore, India
11:30
12:00
HPC in Latin America
30'
G. Diaz Toro
Univ. de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela
12:00
12:30
HPC resources/initiatives for climate simulation in Africa
30'
J. Intsiful
UK Met. Office, Exeter, UK
12:30
14:00
Lunch Break
01h30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
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
02h00'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
14:00
14:30
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.
30'
15:30
16:00
Coffee Break
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
16:00
19:30
Laboratory work continues
03h30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
Friday, 16 March, Dialogue with Participants

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

16 March 2007
09:00
10:30
Presentations from Participants
01h30'
10:30
11:00
Coffee Break
30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
11:00
11:30
Presentations by Participants
30'
11:30
12:00
Virtual Clusters: the Eurotech approach
30'
A. Gervaso
Exadron- Eurotech, Udine
12:00
14:30
Buffet Reception offered by EUROTECH
02h30'
Room: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
14:30
15:30
Directors of the Workshop: Concluding Remarks, Handling out of the Certificates
01h00'
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