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advanced_opt_threading-2017

Advanced Optimization and Threading
Date: 27.04.2017 9:00 - 29.04.2017 16:00
Location details: The event is organised at the CSC Training Facilities located in the premises of CSC at Keilaranta 14, Espoo, Finland. The best way to reach us is by public transportation; more detailed travel tips are available.
Language: english-language
lecturers: Sebastian von Alfthan (CSC)
Mikko Byckling (Intel)
Price:
  • free-price-finnish-academics.
  • free-price-others.
The course materials, lunches as well as morning and afternoon coffees are free of charge.
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The seats are filled in the registration order. You may cancel your attendance in 5 business days prior the course.
Additional Information
This course is part of the PRACE Advanced Training Centre activity, please visit the PRACE Training portal for further information about the course. For content please contact: sebastian.von.alfthan@csc.fi
For practicalities: patc@csc.fi

Description

This course will give you the tools and skills needed for writing high performing code for scientific computing. It focuses on techniques that enable you to extract maximum performance from a single node in a modern supercomputer or cluster, which provides the foundation for good performance even for codes running on multiple nodes.

Topics include code optimization for x86 platforms (SIMD vectorization, caches, efficient datamovement) and efficient code parallelization using OpenMP threading. Advanced aspects of threading and optimization, such as new features of OpenMP 4.5, will also be covered during the course.

During the course there is also an opportunity to analyze and optimize your code, and get advice from the lecturers on how to improve the performance in your code.

Learning outcome

  • Awareness of modern features of x86 CPUs
  • Ability to vectorize computations
  • Ability to use advanced features of OpenMP
  • Ability to increase code performance using OpenMP threading and single core optimization techniques

Prerequisites

  • Good knowledge of C/C++ or Fortran
  • Good knowledge of threading using OpenMP
  • Basic knowledge of modern CPU architectures
Program

Day 1: Wednesday, April 26

  • 09.00-09.45 Introduction to performance tuning in HPC

  • 09.45-10.00 Coffee break

  • 10.00-10.45 CPU architecture

  • 10.45-11.45 Performance Analysis methods & VTune Amplifier. Interactive demo.

  • 11.45-12.30 Lunch break

  • 12.30-14.15 Exercises

  • 14.15-14.30 Coffee break

  • 14.30-15.15 Microarchitectural optimization

  • 15.15-16.15 Exercises

  • 16.15-18.00 Opportunity to optimize your own code (optional)

Day 2: Thursday, April 27

  • 09.00-09.45 Optimization for SIMD

  • 09.45-10.00 Coffee break

  • 10.00-11.00 Exercises

  • 11.00-11.30 Optimization for SIMD cont'd

  • 11:30-12:00 Improving SIMD performance using Intel Advisor

  • 12.00-12.45 Lunch break

  • 12.45-14.30 Exercises

  • 14.30-14.45 Coffee break

  • 14:45-15:15 Memory access optimization

  • 15.15-16.00 Exercises

  • 16.00-18.00 Opportunity to optimize your own code (optional)

Day 3: Friday, April 28

  • 09.00-09.45 Memory access optimization cont'd

  • 09.45-10.00 Coffee break

  • 10.00-11.00 Exercises

  • 11.00-12.00 Advanced OpenMP

  • 12.00-12.45 Lunch break

  • 12.45-13.45 Exercises

  • 13:45-14:30 OpenMP performance considerations

  • 14.30-14.45 Coffee break

  • 14.45-16.00 Exercises

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