[Hpc-news] WG: 7th VI-HPS Tuning Workshop, 28-30 March 2011, at HLRS

Di Feb 22 15:45:20 CET 2011

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Von: Rainer Keller [mailto:keller at hlrs.de] 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. Februar 2011 15:42
An: held at uni-muenster.de
Betreff: 7th VI-HPS Tuning Workshop, 28-30 March 2011, at HLRS

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

parallele Programmierung komplexer Anwendungen ist nicht trivial. Um den
Anwender bei dieser Aufgabe zu unterstuetzen existieren viele Werkzeuge
fuer die Fehlersuche und die Leistungsbewertung.

Das Hoechstleistungsrechenzentrum wird im Q3/2011 einen Cray XE6 HPC
Rechner mit ueber 1 PFlops Leistung installieren. Zur Vorbereitung der
Anwendung auf diese hochskalierende Plattform stellt das HLRS den
Benutzern eine Teststellung fuer erste Erfahrung sowie
Performance-Analyse zur Verfuegung.

Am HLRS wird vom 28.-30. Maerz der 7. VI-HPS Tuning Workshop
stattfinden, bei dem die Entwickler der Werkzeuge direkt mit den
Anwendungsentwicklern auf den HPC Systemen arbeiten.
Zu diesem Workshop moechten wir Sie recht herzlich einladen.

Auf den folgenden Webseiten erhalten Sie mehr Informationen und koennen
ich registrieren:

   http://websrv.hlrs.de/vi-hps/

Mit freundlichen Gruessen,
Rainer Keller
Brian Wylie
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7th Tuning Workshop of the
Virtual Institute - High Productivity Supercomputing (VI-HPS)
at the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS)
28-30 March 2011
http://www.vi-hps.org/vi-hps-tw7/
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To help improve the quality and accelerate the development process of
complex simulation codes in science and engineering, the Virtual
Institute - High Productivity Supercomputing develops software tools
for checking the correctness and analyzing the performance of parallel
applications. Emphasis is given to the programming models MPI & OpenMP.

This workshop will:

* give an overview of our programming tools suite

* explain the functionality of individual tools, and how to use them
  effectively

* offer hands-on experience and expert assistance using the tools

The workshop will be held in English and run from 09:00 to not later
than 18:00 each day, with breaks for lunch and refreshments.
There is no fee for academic participants, however, participants are
responsible for their own travel and accomodation.

The following VI-HPS tools will be covered:

* PAPI - a free library interfacing to hardware performance counters

* Periscope - an automatic performance analysis tool using a
  distributed online search for performance bottlenecks

* Scalasca - an open-source toolset that can be used to analyze the
  performance behavior of MPI & OpenMP parallel applications and
  automatically identify inefficiencies

* Vampir - a commercial framework and graphical analysis tool to
  display and analyze trace files

* TAU - a performance system for measurement and analysis of parallel
  programs written in Fortran, C, C++, Java & Python

Also the following performance analysis tools are presented:

* RogueWave's ThreadSpotter - a tool to identify cache- and memory-
  related performance issues on multi-core processors

* Cray's CrayPat - the highly-scalable performance analysis tools 
  specifically tailored for Cray hardware

Classroom capacity is limited, therefore priority will be given to
applicants with parallel codes already running on the HLRS computer
systems, and those bringing codes from similar systems to work on.
Participants are therefore encouraged to prepare their own MPI,
OpenMP and hybrid OpenMP/MPI parallel application codes for analysis.

For further information and to register, please visit the HLRS
workshop web page at:

    http://websrv.hlrs.de/vi-hps/

For information about other VI-HPS workshops and tutorials, and to
sign up to the mailing list for announcements, visit:

    http://www.vi-hps.org/training/

Contact:

Brian Wylie (JSC)    +49 2461 61-6589
Rainer Keller (HLRS) +49 711 685 65858

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The Virtual Institute - High Productivity Supercomputing is a joint
initiative of Forschungszentrum Juelich, the German Research School
for Simulation Sciences, RWTH Aachen University, Technische
Universitaet Dresden, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, University of
Tennessee, University of Oregon, and University of Stuttgart.
For more information, please visit www.vi-hps.org .
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