Agenda

The following is the school’s agenda, subject to minor changes.


Sunday, July 9

16:00 – Registration opens
18:00 – Orientation (General information, introduction to mentoring, programming challenge overview)
19:00 – 21:00 – Welcome reception


Monday, July 10

07:00 – BREAKFAST

08:30 – Testing of course accounts (participants may also register at the school venue on Monday)
08:50 – Message of the Day
09:00 – Welcome
09:10 – Keynote – Amanda Randles, Duke University
10:10 – Introduction of presenters and mentors

10:40 – BREAK

11:10 – Overview of organizing and participating organizations
11:30 – Career paths overview [Mentoring programme]

12:30 – LUNCH

14:00 – Parallel programming: MPI track
                [David Henty & Weronika Filinger, EPCC]    ||
                Accelerator programming track, incl. OpenMP
                [Ludovic Capelli, EPCC]
                (parallel sessions, with coffee break around 15:30)

17:30 – BREAK

18:00-21:00 – Dinner buffet & electronic poster session I


Tuesday, July 11

07:00 – BREAKFAST

08:50 – Message of the Day
09:00 – Parallel programming: MPI track
                [David Henty & Weronika Filinger, EPCC]    ||
                Accelerator programming track, incl. OpenMP
                [Ludovic Capelli, EPCC]
                (parallel sessions, with coffee break around 10:30)

12:30 – LUNCH

14:00 – HPC challenges in Atmospheric Science
                [Brian Jewett, Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign]    ||
                HPC challenges in Bio-Engineering
                [Orly Alter, Univ. of Utah]
14:40 – Workflow tools
                [Scott Callaghan, Univ. Southern California]    ||
                Parallel I/O
                [John Cazes, TACC]

15:15 – BREAK

15:45 – Software engineering [Erik Lindahl, Univ. Stockholm]
16:30 – Career skills breakout activities [Mentoring programme]

17:15 – BREAK

18:00 – 21:00 – Dinner buffet & electronic poster session II


Wednesday, July 12

07:00 – BREAKFAST

08:50 – Message of the Day
09:00 – HPC Python programming [Ramses van Zon, Univ. Toronto]     ||
                Performance analysis and optimization [Ilya Zhukov, JSC]

11:00 – BREAK

11:30 – One-on-one mentor meetings [Mentoring programme]

12:30 – LUNCH

14:00 – Scientific visualization [Vetria Byrd, Purdue Univ.]    ||
                GPU performance analysis [Dominik Ernst, Univ. Erlangen]

16:00 – Free time and evening


Thursday, July 13

07:00 – BREAKFAST

08:50 – Message of the Day
09:00 – Big Data analytics I [John Urbanic, PSC]

11:00 – BREAK

11:30 – Resource Fair [Mentoring programme]

12:30 – LUNCH

14:00 – Big Data analytics II [John Urbanic, PSC]

15:00 – BREAK

15:30 – HPC challenges in Life Sciences
                [Eugene Klyshko, Univ. of Toronto]    ||
                HPC challenges in Materials Science
                [Emily Kahl, Univ. of Queensland]
16:05 – Numerical libraries
                [James Willis, SciNet & Univ. Toronto]

16:55 – BREAK

17:30 – Networking: social event and dinner


Friday, July 14

07:00 – BREAKFAST

08:50 – Message of the Day
09:00 – Machine Learning I [John Urbanic, PSC]

10:30 – BREAK

11:00 – Machine Learning II [John Urbanic, PSC]
12:30 – Closing session

13:00-14:00 – LUNCH & end of school programme