Fourth Computational and Data Science school for HEP (CoDaS-HEP 2022)

1 Aug 2022, 08:30 → 5 Aug 2022, 13:00 US/Eastern

407 Jadwin Hall (Princeton University)

The fourth school on tools, techniques and methods for Computational and Data Science for High Energy Physics (CoDaS-HEP 2022) will take place on 1-5 August, 2022, at Princeton University.

Advanced software is a critical ingredient to scientific research. Training young researchers in the latest tools and techniques is an essential part of developing the skills required for a successful career both in research and in industry.

The CoDaS-HEP school aims to provide a broad introduction to these critical skills as well as an overview of applications High Energy Physics. Specific topics to be covered at the school include:

• Parallel Programming 
• Big Data Tools and Techniques
• Machine Learning 
• Practical skills like performance evaluation, collaborative use of git/github, etc.

The school offers a limited number of young researchers an opportunity to learn these skills from experienced scientists and instructors. Successful applicants will receive travel and lodging support to attend the school.

School website: http://codas-hep.org   

Applications for the CoDaS-HEP 2022 school are now being accepted. Please use this Google Form to apply. The deadline for application is 6 May, 2022. Applicants will be notified regarding acceptance and available travel support by 15 May.

The school lectures will take place in 407 Jadwin Hall, in the main lecture hall of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science (PCTS).

This project is supported by National Science Foundation grants OAC-1829707, OAC-1829729 and OAC-1836650, the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE), the Princeton Physics Department, the Office of the Dean for Research of Princeton University and the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the developers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

 

Monday, 1 August

08:30 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome and Overview

Speaker: Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US))

09:10 → 10:30 Setup and Collaborative Programming

Speaker: Kilian Lieret

Playground

Slides (fallback pdf)

Slides live

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 What Every Computational Physicist Should Know About Computer Architecture

These days, everyone in physics in a computational physicist in one way or another. Experiments, theory, and (obviously) simulations all rely heavily on computers. Isn't it time you got to know them better? Computer architecture is an interesting study in its own right, and how well one understands and uses the capabilities of today's systems can have real implications for how fast your computational work gets done. Let's dig in, learn some terminology, and find out what's in there.

Speaker: Steven R Lantz (Cornell University (US))

WhatEveryCompPhysShouldKnow.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Vector Parallelism on Multi-Core Processors

All modern CPUs boost their performance through vector processing units (VPUs). VPUs are activated through special SIMD instructions that load multiple numbers into extra-wide registers and operate on them simultaneously. Intel's latest processors feature a plethora of 512-bit vector registers, as well as 1 or 2 VPUs per core, each of which can operate on 16 floats or 8 doubles in every cycle. Typically these SIMD gains are achieved not by the programmer directly, but by (a) the compiler through automatic vectorization of simple loops in the source code, or (b) function calls to highly vectorized performance libraries. Either way, vectorization is a significant component of parallel performance on CPUs, and to maximize performance, it is important to consider how well one's code is vectorized. We will take a look at vector hardware, then turn to simple code examples that illustrate how compiler-generated vectorization works.

Speaker: Steven R Lantz (Cornell University (US))

abc_fma at godbolt.org

abc_fma.c

VectorParallelismMultiCoreProcs.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 The Scientific Python Ecosystem

In recent years, Python has become a glue language for scientific computing. Although code written in Python is generally slow, it has a good connection with compiled C code and a common data abstraction through Numpy. Many data processing, statistical, and most machine learning software has a Python interface as a matter of course.

This tutorial will introduce you to core Python packages for science, such as Numpy, SciPy, Matplotlib, Pandas, and Numba, as well as HEP-specific tools like iminuit, particle, pyjet, and pyhf. We'll especially focus on accessing ROOT data in uproot and awkward.

Speaker: Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University)

CPU Minicourse

ISciNumPy

Level up your Python

Scikit-HEP Developer

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:30 The Scientific Python Ecosystem

Speaker: Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University)

DANCE@Snowmass

HSF lab

HSF Training

Scikit-HEP

18:00 → 20:30 Welcome Reception

Tuesday, 2 August

08:00 → 08:30 Breakfast

08:30 → 09:00 The Use and Abuse of Random Numbers

Speaker: David Lange (Princeton University (US))

Jupyter Notebook Demonstration Programs

RandomAbuse2019.pdf

09:00 → 10:30 Floating Point Arithmetic Is Not Real

Speaker: Bei Wang (Princeton University)

FloatingPoint_CoDaS-HEP2022.pdf

FloatingPoint_CoDaS-HEP2022.pptx

10:30 → 10:40 Group Photo - Jadwin Hall plaza

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:30 Vector Parallelism on Multi-Core Processors (continued)

Speaker: Steven R Lantz (Cornell University (US))

11:30 → 12:00 Introduction to Performance Tuning & Optimization Tools

Improving the performance of scientific code is something that is often considered to be an art that is difficult, mysterious, and time-consuming, but it doesn't have to be. Performance tuning and optimization tools can greatly aid in the evaluation and understanding of the performance of scientific code. In this talk we will discuss how to approach performance tuning and introduce some measurement tools to evaluate the performance of compiled-language (C/C++/Fortran) code. Powerful profiling tools, such as Intel VTune and Advisor, will be introduced and discussed.

Speaker: Steven R Lantz (Cornell University (US))

IntroPerfTuningOpt.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Performance Case Study: the mkFit Particle Tracking Code

In this case study, we consider how a physics application may be restructured to take better advantage of vectorization. In particular, we focus on the Matriplex concept that is used to implement parallel Kalman filtering in our collaboration's particle tracking R&D project called mkFit. The mkFit code is now part of the production software for CMS in LHC Run 3. Drastic changes to data structures and loops were required to help the compiler find the SIMD opportunities in the algorithm. We conclude by looking at how Intel VTune and Advisor, together with simple test codes, played a role in identifying and resolving trouble spots that affected performance.

Speaker: Steven R Lantz (Cornell University (US))

AVX-512 sin() at godbolt.org

IRIS-HEP mkFit project

Parallel Kalman Filter tracking

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Machine Learning: Introduction to Machine Learning, Decision Trees

Speakers: Adrian Alan Pol (Princeton University (US)), Savannah Jennifer Thais (Princeton University (US))

GitHub

intro_to_ml.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:30 Machine Learning: Introduction to Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks

With the vast amount of data and increasing computing power, the last decade saw an explosion of deep learning applications for real-world problems, especially when working with images. Deep learning is increasingly adopted in the high-energy physics field.

We will go through the basics of neural networks: how do we train them and how do they make predictions. We will cover the basic building blocks of modern solutions. In the hands-on tutorial, you will learn how to use deep learning for jet tagging with high or low-level input data.

Speakers: Adrian Alan Pol (Princeton University (US)), Savannah Jennifer Thais (Princeton University (US))

CODAS_Lecture2_Slides.pdf

Github

18:30 → 20:30 Social Mixer - Prospect House

Food and drinks at Prospect House

Wednesday, 3 August

08:00 → 08:30 Breakfast

08:30 → 10:00 Machine Learning: Introduction to Graph Neural Networks

Speakers: Adrian Alan Pol (Princeton University (US)), Savannah Jennifer Thais (Princeton University (US))

GitHub

gnn_lecture.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:30 Machine Learning: Unsupervised Machine Learning, Autoencoders

Not all machine learning problems are created equal. Some tasks require working with no labels either to discover similarities between data points or to spot anomalies. Clustering is an important task of grouping similar data together. Dimensionality reduction helps with understanding the input space with a lot of input features. An autoencoder is a type of neural network that aims to learn the encoding of unlabeled data. They could be used for noise removal and dimensionality reduction. They can be useful to generate new data from arbitrary encoding. However, we need to learn the latent code distribution for that. This is where variational autoencoders come in handy.

In this tutorial, you will write your own clustering algorithm, use a dimensionality reduction algorithm to visualize and understand the data and train a variational autoencoder to generate new data.

Speakers: Adrian Alan Pol (Princeton University (US)), Savannah Jennifer Thais (Princeton University (US))

CODAS_Lecture3_Slides.pdf

Github

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Columnar Data Analysis

Data analysis languages, such as Numpy, MATLAB, R, IDL, and ADL, are typically interactive with an array-at-a-time interface. Instead of performing an entire analysis in a single loop, each step in the calculation is a separate pass, letting the user inspect distributions each step of the way.

Unfortunately, these languages are limited to primitive data types: mostly numbers and booleans. Variable-length and nested data structures, such as different numbers of particles per event, don't fit this model. Fortunately, the model can be extended.

This tutorial will introduce awkward-array, the concepts of columnar data structures, and how to use them in data analysis, such as computing combinatorics (quantities depending on combinations of particles) without any for loops.

Speakers: Ioana Ifrim (Princeton University (US)), Jim Pivarski (Princeton University)

GitHub repo

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:30 Columnar Data Analysis

Speakers: Ioana Ifrim (Princeton University (US)), Jim Pivarski (Princeton University)

18:00 → 20:00 Dinner on your own

Thursday, 4 August

08:00 → 08:30 Breakfast

08:30 → 10:30 Parallel Programming - An introduction to parallel computing with OpenMP

We start with a discussion of the historical roots of parallel computing and how they appear in a modern context. We'll then use OpenMP and a series of hands-on exercises to explore the fundamental concepts behind parallel programming.

Speaker: Tim Mattson (Intel)

GitHub repo

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Parallel Programming - The OpenMP Common Core

We will explore through hands-on exercises the common core of OpenMP; that is, the features of the API that most OpenMP programmers use in all their parallel programs. This will provide a foundation of understanding you can build on as you explore the more advanced features of OpenMP.

Speaker: Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Parallel Programming - Working with OpenMP

We'll explore more complex OpenMP problems and get a feel for how to work with OpenMP with real applications.

Speaker: Tim Mattson (Intel)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:00 Parallel Programming - The world beyond OpenMP

Parallel programming is hard. There is no way to avoid that reality. We can mitigate these difficulties by focusing on the fundamental design patterns from which most parallel algorithms are constructed. Once mastered, these patterns make it much easier to understand how your problems map onto other parallel programming models. Hence for our last session on parallel programming, we'll review these essential design patterns as seen in OpenMP, and then show how they appear in cluster computing (with MPI) and GPGPU computing (with OpenCL and a bit of CUDA).

Speaker: Tim Mattson (Intel)

18:00 → 20:00 School Dinner - Nassau Club

https://www.nassauclub.org

Friday, 5 August

08:30 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 09:45 Things you didn't know you needed

Speakers: Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University), Kilian Lieret

Examples in repo

Slides (fallback pdf)

Slides (preferred)

09:45 → 10:30 Example Application: Line Segment Tracking

Speaker: Tres Reid (Cornell University (US))

Parallelize track finding on GPUs- Codas hep 8-5-22.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Closing Session