2011 Winter Blue Waters PRAC Workshop

Agenda

Topics for Dec. 13-14

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Continental breakfast is served at 8:00 a.m.; dinner is served at 6:00 p.m.

• Programming Environment for the Cray XE6 nodes
• Optimizing applications for the Interlagos processors
  • Memory domains and affinity
  • Pinning processes to specific cores
  • Obtaining and interpreting Interlagos hardware counter data
• Optimizing applications for the Gemini interconnect
• Debugging with DDT at scale
  • Presentation
  • Demo
  • Hands-on lab

Topics for Dec. 15

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Continental breakfast is served at 8:00 a.m.; dinner is served at 6:00 p.m.

• Overview of the Cray XK nodes (20 minutes)
• Introduction to OpenACC (30 minutes)
• Development cycle of application porting (3 hours)
  • Static analysis of the application
  • Identifying hot loops
  • Scoping analysis
  • Adding OpenMP
  • Creating OpenACC regions from OpenMP regions
  • Debugging
  • Performance tuning
  • Profile application
  • Analysis of data transfers
  • Adding data regions
• Hands-on lab

Topics for Dec. 16

8:30 a.m. - noon

Box lunches are available at noon.

• Additional discussions on topics from the previous days (both XE and XK)
• Additional hands-on labs

Blue Waters is a joint effort of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, its National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation. It is supported by the National Science Foundation and the University of Illinois.