Name: [Virtual] Mini-workshop on tasking (POSTPONED)
Start: 2021-03-25T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2021-03-26T18:30:00+01:00
Location: No location set

Thursday 25 March
- Thu 25 Mar
- Fri 26 Mar
- Tasking-1 -> 26th of March
  
  Anything about "making the tasking becoming the default mode"
  
  Conveners: Dr Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
  
  Jonas Hahnfeld: EM Shower Simulation on GPUs
  - 1
    
    Tasking library principle & design
    
    Speaker: Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
  - 2
    
    Application of tasking to Geant4
    
    Speakers: Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Makoto Asai (SLAC)
  - 3
    
    Status of development
    
    Speakers: Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Makoto Asai (SLAC)
  - 4
    
    Discussion
Friday 26 March
- Thu 25 Mar
- Fri 26 Mar
- Tasking-2 -> 22nd of April
  
  Tasking by products and examples
  
  Introduction-Tasking-2.pdf
  - 5
    
    Tasking & hybrid computing ?
    
    This will be essentially a discussion, but supporting documents are welcome.
    Hybrid computing : collecting questions & issues (eg : how to use ? How to use in a simulation context ? What communication protocol between task(s) and GPU(s) ? ... )
  - 6
    
    Sub-event parallelism
    
    Speaker: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
  - 7
    
    Examples : status of existing, creation of new ones
  - 8
    
    Executive summary