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Feb

by pi3

CERN openlab / Intel Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning Workshop Winter 2010… From 9:00 (9th of February) until 17:00 (10th of February) openlab are filled by people who wants to learn smth from Intel’s guys… At the beginning I want to say that one of the speaker will be Polish guy – Andrzej Nowak. Here is short plan of lectures:

Day 1 - Feb 9th 2010

09:00, 5'        Introduction - Sverre Jarp, CERN openlab
09:05, 75'       Scalability in software and hardware -
                 -tuning performance in 7 dimensions
                 - Sverre Jarp, CERN openlab
10:20, 10'       Break
10:30, 20'       Systematic benchmarking - Jeff Arnold, Intel
10:50, 30'       Compiler overview - Sverre Jarp, CERN openlab
11:20, 10'       Break
11:30, 60'       Understunding performance tuning
                 - Andrzej Nowak, CERN openlab
12:30, 90'       Lunch (by own)
14:00, 2h 30'    Lab exercises
16:30, 30'       Exercises summary + Q&A

Day 2 - Feb 10th 2010

09:00, 45'       Vectorization - Andrzej Nowak, CERN openlab
09:45, 45'       Guest speaker: C++ optimization -
                 - Lorenzo Montea, CERN
10:30, 10'       Break
10:40, 30'       Floating point computation - Jeff Arnold, Intel
11:10, 30'       NUMA memory systems - Julien Leduc, CERN openlab
11:40, 10'       Break
11:50, 45'       Advanced performance tuning and compilers
                 - Jeff Arnold, Intel
12:35, 85'       Lunch (by own)
14:00, 2h 30'    Exercises summary + Q&A


After all lectures what I’ve heard (not everything),  lecture about Vectorization was the best (for me :>). Greetings for Andrzej Nowak 🙂