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Agenda

Tuesday, August 5, 2008
1:00 pm - 1:15 pm Welcome
Thom Dunning, NCSA Director
1:15 pm - 1:45 pm Multi-core Overview
Galen Arnold, NCSA User Consultant
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm Porting Chemistry Codes to a Multi-core System: Lessons Learned
Dodi Heryadi, NCSA Applications Scientist
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Break
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Hands-on Lab - Introduction to Multi-core Performance
(Using CI-Tutor)
 
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
8:00 am - 8:30 am Continental breakfast
8:30 am - 9:45 am Performance Tuning Examples
Greg Bauer, NCSA Applications Scientist
9:45 am - 10:00 am Break
10:00 am - 10:45 am OpenMP Examples
Mark Straka, NCSA Applications Scientist
10:45 am - 12:00 pm Hands-on Lab - Open
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm Hands-on Lab - Open
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm Break
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Multi-core Cache Use Examples
Galen Arnold, NCSA User Consultant
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Hands-on Lab - Multi-core Cache Impacts on MPI Communications (Using CI-Tutor)
 
Thursday, August 7, 2007
8:00 am - 8:30 am Continental breakfast
8:30 am - 9:45 am Hands-on Lab - Using Threads to Improve Multi-core Scalability (CI-Tutor)
9:45 am - 10:00 am Break
10:00 am - 11:30 am Hands-on Lab - Open
10:30am - 12:00pm Wrapup
  • Question and Answer Session
  • Open Discussion and Lessons Learned