Effective Use of Multi-core Technology
July 24 – 26, 2007
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
NCSA Building
1205 W. Clark Street
Urbana, Illinois
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is offering a workshop on the "Effective Use of Multi-core Technology: Towards Petascale Applications Using Abe" on July 24 - 26, 2007 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Multicore processors hold the promise of enhanced performance and more efficient parallel processing and are a key stepping stone on the pathway to petascale computation. While multicore technology can provide improved performance, applications must be optimized to take full advantage of it. This workshop will help current and prospective users of multicore systems--particularly NCSA's new 88 teraflop cluster, nicknamed Abe--understand the technology and how to leverage it to accelerate their science and engineering research.
This workshop will provide an overview of Abe's hardware and software environment and the tools and programming models available to use the system effectively. Several early users of Abe will give presentations on their experiences porting their applications and participants will be given ample hands-on time to work with NCSA staff to port their own code to Abe.
