When

Friday January 22, 2016 from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM PST
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University of California -- Santa Barbara 
Elings Hall
Room 1601
Santa Barbara, CA 93106  

 
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Marissa Rogers 
Plan 365 Inc. 
919-534-2239
mrogers@plan365inc.com 
 

Parallel Programming and Optimization with
Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessors
Developer Training Event
Santa Barbara, CA

Event Details: CDT 102

Friday, January 22, 2016
Registration Begins: 8:30 AM
Presentation: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Lunch will be provided

University of California -- Santa Barbara
Elings Hall
Room 1601
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

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Parking: Located at Lot 10, next to Elings Hall. There are two permit options: personal permit $10/day OR reserved space, $30 person
Permits may be purchased here
There is an express bus service available which runs at high frequency, and stops directly in front of Elings Hall. The schedule can be found here
 

*Please bring your own laptop to the CDT 102 training, below is a list of the necessary specifications:

  • Windows (XP or newer), Mac OS X (10.5 or later), or Linux (something from the 21st century)
  • Wireless (Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n) network connectivity
  • Web Browser (any)
  • On Windows: Putty and Pageant (www.putty.org) and WinSCP (www.winscp.net)
  • On Mac OS X and Linux: ssh client
  • Optional: on all operating systems, the free software NoMachine (www.nomachine.com). This is only necessary if you are not comfortable programming in Linux in a text terminal over an SSH connection. System requirements and installation instructions for NoMachine can be found here. 

Space is limited ... register early!


This one-day labs course features hands-on exercises on the available programming models and best optimization practices for the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor and Intel Xeon processor, and on the usage of the Intel software development and diagnostic tools.

The session will cover:

  • Offload and Native:  "Hello World" to complex; using MPI.
  • Performance Analysis:  VTune.
  • Case Study:  All aspects of tuning in the N-body calculation.
  • Optimization I:  Strip mining for vectorization, parallel reduction.
  • Optimization II:  Loop tiling, thread affinity. 
Course abstract can be found here. 

 

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 Reminder: You must complete CDT 101 before taking CDT 102

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