The ICTP's HPC appointments - NEWS

[Visintin Sabrina]

Dear all,

we remind you that ICTS is organizing a series of weekly meetings with focus on High Performance Computing (HPC) and parallel programming. 
The idea is to combine basic topics and their possible applications in the main scientific areas of interest for the ICTP Community.
Alternating, HPC specialists from the ICT Section will present one or more topics within a self-contained one-hour lecture. Therefore, people interested in one argument, can participate in the specific lecture without the necessity to follow the whole program.

The sessions are organized every Tuesday from 11:00 to 12:15 starting from the October 9, 2012 until the end of this year. Exceptions will be:

-  Wednesday November 14, 2012   10:00AM - 11:15 at Leonardo Da Vinci Building, Stasi Seminar Room

-  Wednesday November 21, 2012   10:00AM - 11:15 at Leonardo Da Vinci Building, Stasi Seminar Room

Below you can find the complete scheduled program. 

Tuesday November 6, 2012 – 11AM – 12:15 Location: Leonardo Da Vinci Building, Euler Lecture Hall
Title: HPC for science. 
Brief description: Axel will go through the most interesting experiences of his long career showing how HPC have had a significant impact for making real science.
Speaker: Axel Kohlmeyer
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Wednesday November 14, 2012 – 10AM – 11:15 Location: Leonardo Da Vinci Building, Stasi Seminar Room
Title: Fighting errors when either compiling/installing or running software. 
Brief description: the secrets of symbol naming and how to access them in a debugger. A real example (FFTW-2 segfaults!)
Speaker: Axel Kohlmeyer
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Wednesday November 21, 2012 – 10AM – 11:15 Location: Leonardo Da Vinci Building, Stasi Seminar Room
Title: Language relations. How to access C/C++ from Fortran and the other way around?
Brief description: How to recognize "mangled" function names when profiling or tracing (gprof, perf, valgrind/memcheck). 
Speaker: Axel Kohlmeyer
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Tuesday November 27, 2012 – 11AM – 12:15 Location: Leonardo Da Vinci Building, Euler Lecture Hall
Title: Parallel Computing Architecture: how to exploit massive parallel system such as BG/Q.
Brief description: application tuning on massive parallel systems. Examples: Quantum ESPRESSO & RegCM.
Speaker: Ivan Girotto
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Tuesday December 4, 2012 – 11AM – 12:15 Location: Leonardo Da Vinci Building, Euler Lecture Hall
Title: Collaborating codes.
Brief description: Using the search for supersymmetry as an example, David will talk about the issues involved in joining up different programs to work together.
Speaker: David Grellsheid
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Tuesday December 11, 2012 – 11AM – 12:15 Location: Leonardo Da Vinci Building, Euler Lecture Hall
Title: Lennard-Jones code for Molecular Dynamics: from serial to multi-thread.
Brief description: a practical example of using multi-threading programming paradigm for parallel development.
Speaker: Axel Kohlmeyer
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Tuesday December 18, 2012 – 11AM – 12:15 Location: Leonardo Da Vinci Building, Euler Lecture Hall
Title: Lennard-Jones code for Molecular Dynamics: from multi-threading to distributed memory.
Brief description: a practical example of using mixed messsage passing and multi-threading programming paradigms for parallel development.
Speaker: Axel Kohlmeyer
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