Future computing in particle physics

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Cramond Room (e-Science Institute, Edinburgh)

Cramond Room

e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

15 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA, UK
Description
Recent developments in computing and software architectures have resulted in huge potential for accelerating applications used in experimental particle physics. This is an ideal time to investigate how a significant performance boost can be achieved by the effective use of many-core and GPU architectures in a distributed computing environment, as well as utilising emerging I/O and storage technologies. This workshop aims to discuss what has been done so far in the field and what potential future development areas are feasible.

For travel etc details see:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/1211/
    • 14:00 17:00
      Overview and LHC Computing Challenges Cramond Room

      Cramond Room

      e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

      15 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA, UK
      Convener: Roger Jones (Physics Department-Lancaster University)
      • 14:00
        Welcome and Overview 10m
        Speaker: Philip Clark (University of Edinburgh)
        Slides
      • 14:10
        Atlas computing challenges 20m
        Speaker: Jim Shank (Department of Physics-Boston University)
        Slides
      • 14:30
        CMS strategic and tactical choices for multicore computing 20m
        Speaker: Mr Giulio Eulisse (FERMILAB)
        Slides
      • 14:50
        Tea and Discussion 30m
      • 15:20
        Atlas software challanges 20m
        Speaker: David Rousseau (CERN)
        Slides
      • 15:40
        ATLAS Distributred Computing Plans for the Future 20m
        Speaker: Dr Alexei Klimentov (Department of Physics-Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))
        Slides
      • 16:00
        Issues with Simulating Events at High Luminosity in ATLAS 30m
        Speaker: John Derek Chapman (Cavendish Lab., Dept. of Physics-University of Cambridge)
        Slides
      • 16:30
        Discussion 30m
    • 18:00 19:00
      Whisky Tasting Welcome Reception 1h Surgeons Hall - Nicholson Street

      Surgeons Hall - Nicholson Street

      Including Lecture on The Malt Whisky Cluster Vortex and Private Tour of Surgeons Museum. Sponsored by Dell.
      Speaker: Dr Wishart David
      Directions
      Synopsis
    • 09:00 10:40
      Multicore Hardware and Applications Cramond Room

      Cramond Room

      e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

      15 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA, UK
      • 09:00
        Manycore/gpu hardware: industry view 30m
        Speaker: Mr Roger Goff (DELL)
        Slides
      • 09:30
        Progress and plans on multicore for Atlas 30m
        Speaker: Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL))
        Slides
      • 10:00
        Atlas whole node plans 20m
        Speakers: Andrew John Washbrook (University of Edinburgh), Dr Douglas Smith (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER)
        Slides
      • 10:20
        Performance of Multi-Core Batch Nodes in a HEP Environment 20m
        Speaker: Mr Manfred Alef (KIT)
        Slides
    • 10:40 11:10
      Coffee and Discussion 30m Cramond Room

      Cramond Room

      e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

      15 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA, UK
    • 11:10 12:40
      Software optimisation and performance tuning Cramond Room

      Cramond Room

      e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

      15 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA, UK
      • 11:10
        LLVM 20m
        Speaker: Rolf Seuster (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik-Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG))
        Slides
      • 11:30
        Optimization Using Tracing JITs 30m
        Speaker: Wim Lavrijsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL))
        Slides
      • 12:00
        Performance analysis tools 20m
        Speakers: Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL)), Roberto Agostino Vitillo (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL)), Wim Lavrijsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL))
        Slides
      • 12:20
        CVMFS 20m
        Speaker: Ian Collier (UK Tier1 Centre)
        Slides
    • 12:40 13:40
      Lunch 1h Cramond Room

      Cramond Room

      e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

      15 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA, UK
    • 13:40 15:00
      Future IO Cramond Room

      Cramond Room

      e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

      15 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA, UK
      • 13:40
        non-ROOT I/O 30m
        Speaker: Samvel Khalatyan (University of Illinois at Chicago)
        Slides
      • 14:10
        Remote I/O for users and future of CMS I/O layers. 30m
        Speaker: Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska)
        Slides
      • 14:40
        Atlas IO improvements and Future prospects 20m
        Speakers: Ilija Vukotic (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (LAL)-Universite de Pari), Wahid Bhimji (University of Edinburgh)
        Slides
    • 15:00 15:10
      Tea 10m Cramond Room

      Cramond Room

      e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

      15 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA, UK
    • 15:10 17:00
      GPU/Manycore Applications: Motivation and projects Cramond Room

      Cramond Room

      e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

      15 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA, UK
      • 15:10
        Atlas Analysis Model Perspectives 20m
        Speaker: Amir Farbin (Department of Physics-University of Texas at Arlington)
        Slides
      • 15:30
        Implementing parallel algorithms for data analysis in the ROOT/RooFit package 20m
        Speaker: Dr Alfio Lazzaro (CERN)
        Slides
      • 15:50
        Experiences on using GPU accelerators for data analysis in ROOT/RooFit package 20m
        Speaker: Yngve Sneen Lindal (Norges Teknisk-Naturvitens. Univ. (NTNU))
        Slides
      • 16:10
        TMVA method optimisation feasiblity study 10m
        Speaker: Andrew John Washbrook (CERN)
        Slides
      • 16:20
        Discussion - Future Plans 40m
    • 19:30 21:30
      Workshop dinner 2h Cramond Room

      Cramond Room

      e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

      15 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA, UK
      Agua Restaurant, Apex City Hotel, Grassmarket, Edinburgh (Note: there are two Apex hotels in Grassmarket...)
      How to get there...
    • 09:00 12:40
      GPU/Manycore Applications: Motivation and projects Cramond Room

      Cramond Room

      e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

      15 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA, UK
      Convener: Philip Clark (University of Edinburgh)
      • 09:00
        Perspectives on ATLAS tracking and the upgrade 20m
        Speaker: Markus Elsing (CERN)
        Slides
      • 09:20
        Track reconstruction on GPUs 20m
        Speaker: Christian Schmitt (Institut fuer Physik-Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz)
        Slides
      • 10:00
        Coffee and Discussion 20m
      • 10:20
        HLT: Z Finder 10m
        Speaker: Andrew John Washbrook (University of Edinburgh)
        Slides
      • 10:30
        Kalman filter 20m
        Speaker: Dmitry Emeliyanov (Particle Physics)
        Slides
      • 10:50
        Bytestream decoding and cluster formation 20m
        Speaker: Jacob Howard (CERN)
        Slides
      • 11:10
        Discussion 20m
      • 11:30
        GP using GPGPU - my experience with OpenCL 30m
        Speaker: Ilija Vukotic (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (LAL)-Universite de Pari)
      • 12:00
        Matrix Element analyses 20m
        Speaker: Robert Harrington (Boston University)
        Slides
      • 12:20
        Programming hybrid architectures with OpenMP accelerator directives 20m
        Speaker: Dr Alistair Hart (Cray Exascale Research Initiative Europe)
        Slides
    • 12:40 13:40
      Lunch 1h Cramond Room

      Cramond Room

      e-Science Institute, Edinburgh

      15 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA, UK