Effective Use of Multi-core Technology
August 5 – 7, 2008
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
NCSA Building
1205 W. Clark Street
Urbana, Illinois
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is offering a workshop on the "Effective Use of the TeraGrid's Multi-core Systems " on August 5 – 7, 2008 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Multi-core processors hold the promise of enhanced performance and more efficient parallel processing and are a key stepping stone on the pathway to petascale computation. While multi-core technology can provide improved performance, applications must be optimized to take full advantage of it. This workshop will help current users of the TeraGrid's multi-core systems to understand the technology and how to leverage it to accelerate their science and engineering research. Topics presented will include an overview of multi-core performance issues and lessons learned along with hands-on assistance with NCSA staff to port and tune applications to multi-core systems.
The target audience will have current Teragrid allocations on systems with multi-core processors (e.g. Abe, Big Red, Ranger), and application code and sample data available for testing and tuning during the workshop.
