Advanced Scientific Computing Workshop

Feb 21, 2014, 9:00 AM → Jul 18, 2014, 6:00 PM Europe/Zurich

Christoph Grab (ETHZ - IPP)

Friday, February 21

10:30 AM → 6:00 PM Welcome, motivation and system aspects

10:30 AM Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Christoph Grab (ETHZ - IPP)

11:00 AM Overview of Computational Aspects in Particle Physics

Speaker: Mr Philipp Eller

Slides ASCW.pdf

12:00 PM Computational challenges for cosmological parameter estimations

Speakers: Mr Joel Akeret, Mr Sebastian Seehars

Slides advsccomp.pdf

1:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM Case study on Theoretical Physics: Annealing

Speaker: Mr Troels Ronnow

Slides SA_multispin_coded.pdf

3:00 PM System Aspects

Speaker: Dr Christian Herzog (ETH Zurich)

Slides system_aspects.pdf

4:30 PM Software installation session

notes list

Friday, February 28

9:00 AM → 6:00 PM Software carpentry: Software design best practices, basics of software projects, versioning, profiling

9:00 AM Welcome and introduction

Link http://software-carpentry.org/index.html http://swcarpentry.github.io/2014-02-28-ethz

9:05 AM Version control with git

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM Using make to compile projects

12:30 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM Python: introduction

3:30 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM Python: data analysis

Saturday, March 1

9:00 AM → 6:00 PM Software carpentry: Programming techniques

9:00 AM Advanced usage of Shell

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM Testing

12:30 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM Testing/Python

3:30 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM Testing/Python

Thursday, June 26

9:00 AM → 6:00 PM High-performance computational aspects: Session 1

9:00 AM Welcome and introduction

9:05 AM Hardware Architecture (NUMA/CPU/Interconnects/GPGPU/FPGA)

Speaker: Mr Alexandr Kosenkov (ETH Zurich)

Slides 1.hw.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM Object-oriented programming and meta-programming (C++)

Speaker: Mr Alexandr Kosenkov (ETH Zurich)

Slides 2.oop.pdf

12:30 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM Conventional parallelism models (MPI/OpenMP/pthreads)

Speaker: Mr Alexandr Kosenkov (ETH Zurich)

Slides 3.conventional.pdf

3:30 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM Modern parallelism models (PGAS/TBB/Linda/Julia etc)

Speaker: Mr Alexandr Kosenkov (ETH Zurich)

Slides 4.modern.pdf

Friday, June 27

9:00 AM → 6:00 PM High-performance computational aspects: Session 2

9:00 AM Object oriented Python programming

Speaker: Mr Lukas Gamper (ETH)

Slides http://alps.comp-phys.org/static/ascw/

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM Profiling and Debugging in cluster environments

Slides 5.profiling.pdf

12:30 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM Getting high performance out of the Python code

3:30 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM GPGPU programming (CUDA/OpenCL/thrust/OpenACC)

Slides 6.gpgpu.pdf

Monday, July 14

9:00 AM → 5:45 PM Aspects of scientific relevance: Session 1

9:00 AM Write your own MC generator

Speaker: Andreas Papaefstathiou

Slides http://www.physik.uzh.ch/~andreasp/mc/

10:30 AM Coffee Break

10:45 AM Generator - Hands ON

Speaker: Andreas Papaefstathiou (UZH)

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM Multivariate Analyses - All you want to know ...

Speaker: Helge Voss

Slides

• ETH2014_MVA1.pptx
• ETH2014_MVA2.pptx
• ETH2014_MVA3.pptx
• ETH2014_MVA4.pptx
• Exercises_MVA.pdf
• MLPExercise.tgz

3:00 PM Coffee

3:20 PM MVA - Hands On session

Speaker: Helge Voss (CERN)

Tuesday, July 15

9:00 AM → 5:50 PM Aspects of scientific relevance: Session 2

9:00 AM The art of Unfolding

Speaker: Mikael Kuusela (CERN)

Slides

• http://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/~adye/software/unfold/htmldoc/RooUnfold.html
• http://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/~adye/software/unfold/RooUnfold.html
• slides.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee Break

10:50 AM Unfolding - Hands On

Speaker: Mikael Kuusela

Slides http://www.cern.ch/mkuusela/ETH_workshop_July_2014/practical.pdf http://www.cern.ch/mkuusela/ETH_workshop_July_2014/RooUnfoldExercise.cxx

12:20 PM Lunch

1:30 PM Applications for Unfolding and MVA

Speaker: Adam Amara (ETHZ)

3:15 PM Coffee Break

3:35 PM Applications - part II

Slides

• http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/www.phys.ethz.ch/~ast/cosmo/ASCW/Imaging/WorkingWithImagingData.ipynb
• http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/www.phys.ethz.ch/~ast/cosmo/ASCW/MCMC/ASCW%20-%20Analyse%20pseudo%20WMAP7%20results.ipynb
• http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/www.phys.ethz.ch/~ast/cosmo/ASCW/MCMC/ASCW%20-%20Compute%20the%20autocorrelation%20time%20of%20the%20chains(Task).ipynb
• http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/www.phys.ethz.ch/~ast/cosmo/ASCW/MCMC/ASCW%20-%20Sample%20pseudo%20WMAP7%20likelihood.ipynb
• http://www.phys.ethz.ch/~ast/cosmo/ASCW/Imaging/ASC_Workshop_20140715.pdf

5:35 PM Concluding Remards