Architectures, Tools And Methodologies For Developing Efficient Large Scale Scientific Computing Applications - ESC11 of UM

The third edition of the INFN International School on "Architectures, tools and methodologies for developing efficient large scale scientific computing applications - ESC11" will be held in Bertinoro (Italy) from the 24th to the 29th of October 2011.

The school is mostly targeted to PhD students, post-docs and young researchers who are actively involved with the development of scientific applications and systems. Familiarity and experience with basic concepts of modern OO languages, in particular with C++ language, are essential prerequisites to attend the school.

The program of this year is structured along three main tracks:

• The basics of efficient computing:
• impact of new CPU architectures
• parallel programming
• tools and methodologies for improving performance
• C++ quality

Effective memory management:

• the memory crisis
• how memory allocation works
• managing memory usage in practice
• memory exploitation in parallel processing

I/O efficiency:

• data access patterns and I/O techniques
• local and remote I/O protocols
• I/O performance bottlenecks

Efficient software development:

• Physical design of SW
• Software Development Models

Lectures will be interspersed with tutorial and practical sessions, providing opportunities for direct applications of optimization tools and technologies as well as for interactions among students, lecturers and tutors.

A few special keynote lectures are also foreseen:

• "Linux on Multicore: challenges and perspective" - Andrea Arcangeli (Red Hat);
• "GPU for scientific computing" - Alessandro Lonardo (INFN Roma 1);
• "OpenCL and the quest for Performance Portability" - Timothy G. Mattson (Intel);
• "High Throughput DAQ Systems" - Niko Neufeld (CERN)

The school offers the possibility to participate in a final test and Bologna University grants 3 credits (ECTS) to the students who successfully pass the test.