Annual Concurrency Forum Meeting

from Tuesday, 1 April 2014 (09:00) to Wednesday, 2 April 2014 (18:00)
CERN (31/3-004)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Apr 2014
2 Apr 2014
AM
09:00
Welcome and Meeting Goals (until 09:15) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
09:00 Welcome and Goals - Dr Pere Mato Vila (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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09:15
Multi-threaded Frameworks (until 12:30) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
09:15 Status report on CMS’ threading progress - Dr Christopher Jones (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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09:45 Status of GaudiHive basic services - Daniel Funke (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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10:15 --- Coffee Break ---
10:45 GaudiHive: Evolution of Execution Flow Management - Illya Shapoval (CERN, KIPT, UNIFE, INFN-FE)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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11:15 Status of AthenaHive - Charles Leggett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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11:45 ALFA - a common concurrency framework for ALICE and FAIR experiments - Dr Mohammad Al-Turany (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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12:05 Status of the ART framework - Dr Marc Paterno (Fermilab)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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09:00
Co-processors, Accelerators and Vectorization (until 13:10) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
09:00 Implementation of a Thread-Parallel, GPU-Friendly Function Evaluation Library - Michael David Sokoloff (University of Cincinnati (US))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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09:20 High Energy Electromagnetic Particle Transportation on the GPU - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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09:40 GPU Manager: An offload engine for Gaudi - Daniel Hugo Campora Perez (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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10:00 Update on Parallel Kalman Filter and GPGPU studies - Sebastian Fleischmann (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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10:20 Accelerator Beam Dynamics on Multicore, GPU and MIC Systems - Dr Panagiotis Spentzouris (FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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10:40 --- Coffee Break ---
11:10 Status of Geometry developments for SIMD and GPUs - Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN) Johannes Christof De Fine Licht (University of Copenhagen (DK))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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11:40 Geant4 MT on MIC - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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12:00 Impressions from experiments with Cilk+ - Andrzej Nowak (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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PM
14:00
Libraries and Tools for a parallel world (until 18:20) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
14:00 Multi-theading experiences in ROOT - Dr Rene Brun (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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14:30 ROOT multithreading status - Philippe Canal (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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15:00 Multi-processing in ROOT: status and ideas for the future - Gerardo Ganis (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Geant4 MT status - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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16:30 Status and Plans for Geant V prototype - Mr Federico Carminati (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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17:00 Monitoring concurrency and performance issues specific to large thread count systems - David Levinthal (Google)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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17:30 Free Slot (discussion)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
14:00
Technology Watch and Evaluations (until 16:50) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
14:00 Emerging Architectures, Energy Efficiency and Benchmarking - David Abdurachmanov (Vilnius University (LT))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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14:20 HEP software on 64-bit ARM - Niko Neufeld (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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14:40 Platform benchmarking with a cluster finder algorithm for the ALICE upgrade - Sylvain Chapeland (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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15:00 High core count and low power system evaluations at openlab - Pawel Szostek (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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15:20 --- Coffee Break ---
15:50 Status of Techlab - Mr Romain Wartel (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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16:10 Knights Landing - what's old, what's new? - Andrzej Nowak (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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16:30
Wrap-up (until 17:30) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
16:30 Summary and Discussion   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)