[Imsa-hpc-list] Fwd: Register Now for the VSCSE Proven Algorithmic Techniques for Many-core Processors Workshop (August 15-19, 2011)

[Steve Stevenson]

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> From: Steven Gordon <sgordon at osc.edu>
> Date: July 29, 2011 10:20:13 AM EDT
> To: steve at cs.clemson.edu
> Subject: Register Now for the VSCSE Proven Algorithmic Techniques for Many-core Processors Workshop (August 15-19, 2011)
> Reply-To: sgordon at osc.edu
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> Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering - Register today to attend!
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> Dear Colleague,  
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> Graduate students, post-docs and professionals from academia, government and  industry are invited to register for the upcoming VSCSE  Workshop: Proven Algorithmic Techniques for Many-core Processors to gain the skills they need and learn how to harness cutting-edge computational resources.  Ohio  Supercomputer Center will be one of the host sites for the courses offered for this workshop.
> WHAT: Proven Algorithmic Techniques for Many-core Processors Workshop
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> WHEN: August 15-19, 2011  
> WHERE: Ohio Supercomputer Center, 
> 1224 Kinear Road, Columbus, OH 43212  
> and at other remote locations around the country  
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> REGISTER NOW TO ATTEND 
> Deadline to register is August 5, 2011 
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> DESCRIPTION: Wen-mei Hwu, principal investigator of the CUDA Center of Excellence at the University of Illinois and co-author of a ground-breaking textbook on parallel programming, is the primary instructor for the Many-core Processors course. This is the fourth year in a row the Virtual School has sponsored this popular summer course.
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> Prerequisites:
> Experience working in a Unix environment
> Experience developing and running scientific codes written in C or C++
> Basic knowledge of CUDA (A short online course, Introduction to CUDA, will be available to registered on-site students who need assistance in meeting this prerequisite)
> Students who took the course Many-core Processors in 2009 are encouraged to take this follow-on course, which includes new topics and lab exercises.
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> Instructors:
> Wen-Mei W. Hwu, professor of electrical and computer engineering and principal investigator of the CUDA Center of Excellence, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> David Kirk, NVIDIA fellow
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> Draft Course outline:
> Introduction
> why problem formulation and algorithm design choices can have dramatic effect on performance
> common algorithmic strategies for high performance
> Increasing locality in dense arrays
> tiling of data access and layout
> Improving efficiency and vectorization in dense arrays
> granularity coarsening
> Reducing output interference
> conversion from scatter to gather
> parallelizing reductions and histograms
> Dealing with non-uniform data
> data sorting and binning
> Dealing with sparse data
> sorting and packing
> Dealing with dynamic data
> parallel queue-based algorithms
> Improving data efficiency in large data traversal
> stencil and other grid-based computation
> Extending beyond many-core processors
> MPI+CUDA
> MPI+OpenCL
> Overview of use of techniques in application domains
> molecular dynamics
> computational fluid dynamics
> medical imaging
> computer vision
> gene sequencing
> Case studies:
> molecular dynamics (NAMD/VMD, MPI, use of algorithm strategies)
> medical imaging
> gene sequencing, financial analysis, etc.
> Hands-on Lab
> NOTE: Students are required to provide their own laptops.
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> The cost for each course (including any optional short course) is just $100. Visit our hub at https://hub.vscse.org/ to enroll in the Virtual School. After enrolling, on-site students register by selecting their courses and indicating which of the distributed HD classrooms they would like to attend.
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> Snacks and an evening reception will be provided; participants are responsible for travel and lodging costs. Because of the large geographic diversity of participating sites, it is likely that little travel will be required.
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> For more information on this VSCSE Summer School 2011 offering, including the sites participating and details on enrollment, visit: http://www.vscse.org/summerschool/2011/manycore.html
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> LOCATIONS:
> Please see http://www.vscse.org/summerschool/2011/manycore.html for specific locations.  OSC is a host site for the Many-core Processors session on August 15-19, 2011.
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> SPONSORS: 
> Funding and support for the Virtual School are provided by the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the State of Illinois, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), and Internet2 Commons.
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> For  more information on training and workshops, please visit:
> http://www.osc.edu
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