Future computing in particle physics

from Wednesday, 15 June 2011 (14:00) to Friday, 17 June 2011 (19:00)
e-Science Institute, Edinburgh (Cramond Room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
15 Jun 2011
16 Jun 2011
17 Jun 2011
AM
09:00
Multicore Hardware and Applications (until 10:40) (Cramond Room)
09:00 Manycore/gpu hardware: industry view - Mr Roger Goff (DELL)   (Cramond Room)
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09:30 Progress and plans on multicore for Atlas - Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL))   (Cramond Room)
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10:00 Atlas whole node plans - Andrew John Washbrook (University of Edinburgh) Dr Douglas Smith (STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER)   (Cramond Room)
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10:20 Performance of Multi-Core Batch Nodes in a HEP Environment - Mr Manfred Alef (KIT)   (Cramond Room)
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10:40 --- Coffee and Discussion ---
11:10
Software optimisation and performance tuning (until 12:40) (Cramond Room)
11:10 LLVM - Rolf Seuster (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik-Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG))   (Cramond Room)
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11:30 Optimization Using Tracing JITs - Wim Lavrijsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL))   (Cramond Room)
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12:00 Performance analysis tools - Wim Lavrijsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL)) Roberto Agostino Vitillo (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL)) Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL))   (Cramond Room)
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12:20 CVMFS - Ian Collier (UK Tier1 Centre)   (Cramond Room)
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09:00
GPU/Manycore Applications: Motivation and projects - Philip Clark (University of Edinburgh) (until 12:40) (Cramond Room)
09:00 Perspectives on ATLAS tracking and the upgrade - Markus Elsing (CERN)   (Cramond Room)
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09:20 Track reconstruction on GPUs - Christian Schmitt (Institut fuer Physik-Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz)   (Cramond Room)
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10:00 --- Coffee and Discussion ---
10:20 HLT: Z Finder - Andrew John Washbrook (University of Edinburgh)   (Cramond Room)
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10:30 Kalman filter - Dmitry Emeliyanov (Particle Physics)   (Cramond Room)
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10:50 Bytestream decoding and cluster formation - Jacob Howard (CERN)   (Cramond Room)
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11:10 Discussion   (Cramond Room)
11:30 GP using GPGPU - my experience with OpenCL - Ilija Vukotic (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (LAL)-Universite de Pari)   (Cramond Room)
12:00 Matrix Element analyses - Robert Harrington (Boston University)   (Cramond Room)
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12:20 Programming hybrid architectures with OpenMP accelerator directives - Dr Alistair Hart (Cray Exascale Research Initiative Europe)   (Cramond Room)
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PM
14:00
Overview and LHC Computing Challenges - Roger Jones (Physics Department-Lancaster University) (until 17:00) (Cramond Room)
14:00 Welcome and Overview - Philip Clark (University of Edinburgh)   (Cramond Room)
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14:10 Atlas computing challenges - Jim Shank (Department of Physics-Boston University)   (Cramond Room)
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14:30 CMS strategic and tactical choices for multicore computing - Mr Giulio Eulisse (FERMILAB)   (Cramond Room)
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14:50 --- Tea and Discussion ---
15:20 Atlas software challanges - David Rousseau (CERN)   (Cramond Room)
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15:40 ATLAS Distributred Computing Plans for the Future - Dr Alexei Klimentov (Department of Physics-Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))   (Cramond Room)
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16:00 Issues with Simulating Events at High Luminosity in ATLAS - John Derek Chapman (Cavendish Lab., Dept. of Physics-University of Cambridge)   (Cramond Room)
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16:30 Discussion   (Cramond Room)
18:00 Whisky Tasting Welcome Reception - Dr Wishart David   ()
Directions
Synopsis
12:40 --- Lunch ---
13:40
Future IO (until 15:00) (Cramond Room)
13:40 non-ROOT I/O - Samvel Khalatyan (University of Illinois at Chicago)   (Cramond Room)
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14:10 Remote I/O for users and future of CMS I/O layers. - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska)   (Cramond Room)
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14:40 Atlas IO improvements and Future prospects - Ilija Vukotic (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (LAL)-Universite de Pari) Wahid Bhimji (University of Edinburgh)   (Cramond Room)
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15:00 --- Tea ---
15:10
GPU/Manycore Applications: Motivation and projects (until 17:00) (Cramond Room)
15:10 Atlas Analysis Model Perspectives - Amir Farbin (Department of Physics-University of Texas at Arlington)   (Cramond Room)
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15:30 Implementing parallel algorithms for data analysis in the ROOT/RooFit package - Dr Alfio Lazzaro (CERN)   (Cramond Room)
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15:50 Experiences on using GPU accelerators for data analysis in ROOT/RooFit package - Yngve Sneen Lindal (Norges Teknisk-Naturvitens. Univ. (NTNU))   (Cramond Room)
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16:10 TMVA method optimisation feasiblity study - Andrew John Washbrook (CERN)   (Cramond Room)
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16:20 Discussion - Future Plans   (Cramond Room)
19:30 Workshop dinner   (Cramond Room)
How to get there...
12:40 --- Lunch ---