[Virtual] Mini-workshop on tasking (POSTPONED)

25 Mar 2021, 16:00 → 26 Mar 2021, 18:30 Europe/Zurich

Thursday 25 March

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

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