The ICTP's HPC appointments

[Sabrina Visintin]

Dear all,

ICTS is going to organize 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.

Each individual presentation will be prepared by the HPC specialists of 
the ICT Section and thought to be self-contained. Therefore, people 
interested in one argument, can participate in the specific lecture 
without the necessity to follow the whole program.

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

Below you can find the scheduled program for the first 5 sessions while 
the further ones will be announced later on.

October 9, 2012 – 11AM – 12:15 Location: Leonardo Da Vinci Building, 
Euler Lecture Hall
Subject: Thinking in Parallel: domain decomposition and task parallelism
- basic concept of parallelism applied to a common problems (FFT, GEMM 
and more)

Speaker: Ivan Girotto
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October 16, 2012 – 11AM – 12:15 Location: Leonardo Da Vinci Building, 
Euler Lecture Hall
Subject: Introduction to HPC, why do we care and what is it about.
Overview of the main concepts are behind the fancy label "HPC"

Speaker: Axel Kohlmeyer
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October 23, 2012 – 11AM – 12:15 Location: Leonardo Da Vinci Building, 
Euler Lecture Hall
Subject: 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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October 30, 2012 – 11AM – 12:15 Location: Leonardo Da Vinci Building, 
Euler Lecture Hall
Subject: Parallel Computing Architecture: how to exploit parallelism
running PWscf (Quantum ESPRESSO Package) on parallel and accelerated 
systems.

Speaker: Ivan Girotto
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November 6, 2012 – 11AM – 12:15 Location: Leonardo Da Vinci Building, 
Euler Lecture Hall
Subject: speed-up, efficiency and scalability. Understanding how to
perform efficient simulation on parallel architecture

Speaker: Ivan Girotto
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Everyone is welcome to attend.

For additional information please refer to Ivan Girotto at igirotto at ictp.it.


We look forward to seeing you,


The Information and Communication Technology Section