Introduction and training "Intel KNL Many-Core - usage and profiling"
(Course no. 12720181 in the training programme 2018 of Forschungszentrum Jülich)
IMPORTANT:
- This course is exclusively for users of JSC's supercomputers JUQUEEN and JURECA
- Participants need to bring their own laptop and need to be able to access JUQUEEN/JURECA from it
Target audience: | Users of the supercomputers in Jülich |
Contents: | |
Prerequisites: | User account on and basic knowledge of JURECA or JUQUEEN |
Language: | This course is given in English. |
Agenda: | Agenda of Introduction and training "Intel KNL Many-Core - usage and profiling" |
Duration: | 3,5 days |
Date: | 26 February - 1 March 2018, starting on 26 February at 11:00 |
Venue: | Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Rotunda, building 16.4, room 301 |
Number of participants: | maximum 25 |
Instructors: | Representatives of Intel, JSC staff members |
Contact: | sc@fz-juelich.de |
Registration: | closed. |
The Research Centre Juelich has extended its general purpose supercomputing system JURECA with a Booster module based on Intel’s KNL architecture. The aim of this course is to give users of the supercomputing resources an introductory overview of the KNL architecture and its usage, and to help them in making efficient use of their allocated resources.
Topics covered include
- Overview of the KNL architecture
- Building code for KNL
- Analysing code correctness and performance
- Vectorisation
- Roof-line analysis
- Performance tuning
- "Bring-your-own-code" hands-on sessions
- Special topics depending on users' interest