Name: Annual Concurrency Forum Meeting
Start: 2014-04-01T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2014-04-02T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

Annual Concurrency Forum Meeting

from Tuesday, April 1, 2014 (9:00 AM) to Wednesday, April 2, 2014 (6:00 PM)

Monday, March 31, 2014
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome and Goals - Pere Mato Vila (CERN)
9:15 AM
9:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

9:15 AM Status report on CMS’ threading progress - Christopher Jones (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

9:45 AM Status of GaudiHive basic services - Daniel Funke (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

10:45 AM GaudiHive: Evolution of Execution Flow Management - Illya Shapoval (CERN, KIPT, UNIFE, INFN-FE)

11:15 AM Status of AthenaHive - Charles Leggett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

11:45 AM ALFA - a common concurrency framework for ALICE and FAIR experiments - Mohammad Al-Turany (CERN)

12:05 PM Status of the ART framework - Marc Paterno (Fermilab)
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

2:00 PM Multi-theading experiences in ROOT - Rene Brun (CERN)

2:30 PM ROOT multithreading status - Philippe Canal (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

3:00 PM Multi-processing in ROOT: status and ideas for the future - Gerardo Ganis (CERN)

4:00 PM Geant4 MT status - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

4:30 PM Status and Plans for Geant V prototype - Federico Carminati (CERN)

5:00 PM Monitoring concurrency and performance issues specific to large thread count systems - David Levinthal (Google)

5:30 PM Free Slot (discussion)
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 1:10 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

9:00 AM Implementation of a Thread-Parallel, GPU-Friendly Function Evaluation Library - Michael David Sokoloff (University of Cincinnati (US))

9:20 AM High Energy Electromagnetic Particle Transportation on the GPU - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

9:40 AM GPU Manager: An offload engine for Gaudi - Daniel Hugo Campora Perez (CERN)

10:00 AM Update on Parallel Kalman Filter and GPGPU studies - Sebastian Fleischmann (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))

10:20 AM Accelerator Beam Dynamics on Multicore, GPU and MIC Systems - Panagiotis Spentzouris (FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY)

11:10 AM Status of Geometry developments for SIMD and GPUs - Johannes Christof De Fine Licht (University of Copenhagen (DK)) Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)

11:40 AM Geant4 MT on MIC - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

12:00 PM Impressions from experiments with Cilk+ - Andrzej Nowak (CERN)
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

2:00 PM Emerging Architectures, Energy Efficiency and Benchmarking - David Abdurachmanov (Vilnius University (LT))

2:20 PM HEP software on 64-bit ARM - Niko Neufeld (CERN)

2:40 PM Platform benchmarking with a cluster finder algorithm for the ALICE upgrade - Sylvain Chapeland (CERN)

3:00 PM High core count and low power system evaluations at openlab - Pawel Szostek (CERN)

3:50 PM Status of Techlab - Romain Wartel (CERN)

4:10 PM Knights Landing - what's old, what's new? - Andrzej Nowak (CERN)
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

4:30 PM Summary and Discussion

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