Annual Concurrency Forum Meeting

from Tuesday, April 1, 2014 (9:00 AM) to Wednesday, April 2, 2014 (6:00 PM)
CERN (31/3-004)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Apr 1, 2014
Apr 2, 2014
AM
9:00 AM
Welcome and Meeting Goals (until 9:15 AM) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
9:00 AM Welcome and Goals - Dr Pere Mato Vila (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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9:15 AM
Multi-threaded Frameworks (until 12:30 PM) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
9:15 AM Status report on CMS’ threading progress - Dr Christopher Jones (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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9:45 AM Status of GaudiHive basic services - Daniel Funke (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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10:15 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:45 AM GaudiHive: Evolution of Execution Flow Management - Illya Shapoval (CERN, KIPT, UNIFE, INFN-FE)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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11:15 AM Status of AthenaHive - Charles Leggett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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11:45 AM ALFA - a common concurrency framework for ALICE and FAIR experiments - Dr Mohammad Al-Turany (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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12:05 PM Status of the ART framework - Dr Marc Paterno (Fermilab)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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9:00 AM
Co-processors, Accelerators and Vectorization (until 1:10 PM) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
9:00 AM Implementation of a Thread-Parallel, GPU-Friendly Function Evaluation Library - Michael David Sokoloff (University of Cincinnati (US))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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9:20 AM High Energy Electromagnetic Particle Transportation on the GPU - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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9:40 AM GPU Manager: An offload engine for Gaudi - Daniel Hugo Campora Perez (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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10:00 AM Update on Parallel Kalman Filter and GPGPU studies - Sebastian Fleischmann (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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10:20 AM Accelerator Beam Dynamics on Multicore, GPU and MIC Systems - Dr Panagiotis Spentzouris (FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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10:40 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:10 AM Status of Geometry developments for SIMD and GPUs - Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN) Johannes Christof De Fine Licht (University of Copenhagen (DK))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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11:40 AM Geant4 MT on MIC - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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12:00 PM Impressions from experiments with Cilk+ - Andrzej Nowak (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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PM
2:00 PM
Libraries and Tools for a parallel world (until 6:20 PM) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
2:00 PM Multi-theading experiences in ROOT - Dr Rene Brun (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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2:30 PM ROOT multithreading status - Philippe Canal (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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3:00 PM Multi-processing in ROOT: status and ideas for the future - Gerardo Ganis (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:00 PM Geant4 MT status - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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4:30 PM Status and Plans for Geant V prototype - Mr Federico Carminati (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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5:00 PM Monitoring concurrency and performance issues specific to large thread count systems - David Levinthal (Google)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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5:30 PM Free Slot (discussion)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
2:00 PM
Technology Watch and Evaluations (until 4:50 PM) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
2:00 PM Emerging Architectures, Energy Efficiency and Benchmarking - David Abdurachmanov (Vilnius University (LT))   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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2:20 PM HEP software on 64-bit ARM - Niko Neufeld (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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2:40 PM Platform benchmarking with a cluster finder algorithm for the ALICE upgrade - Sylvain Chapeland (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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3:00 PM High core count and low power system evaluations at openlab - Pawel Szostek (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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3:20 PM --- Coffee Break ---
3:50 PM Status of Techlab - Mr Romain Wartel (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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4:10 PM Knights Landing - what's old, what's new? - Andrzej Nowak (CERN)   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
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4:30 PM
Wrap-up (until 5:30 PM) (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)
4:30 PM Summary and Discussion   (31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre)