Hochleistunsrechnen: HPC++, Writing Efficient Programs in C++ - kurs-l - lists.rwth-aachen.de

28 Aug 2001


      Herzliche Einladung
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Mit freundlichen Gruessen
Dieter an Mey
Writing Efficient Programs in C++
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Time            
        Presentations 
                Monday,         Oct 1, 10:00 - 17:00 
                Tuesday,        Oct 2,  9:00 - 17:00
Practical Exercises 
                Thursday,       Oct 4,  9:00 - 17:00 
            or alternatively on
                Tuesday,        Oct 9,  9:00 - 17:00
Location        
        Aachen University of Technology,        
        Lecture Hall and Workstation Pool 
        of the Center for Computing and Communication
Speakers        
        Joerg Striegnitz (Research Center Juelich, ZAM)
        Lawrence Crowl (Sun Microsystems, C++ compiler group)
Contents
        This course intends to make C++ programmers 
        aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the 
        C++ programming language in the field of sci-
        entific computing.
Classes, inheritance, operator overloading, and 
        polymorphism are very suitable and powerful 
        tools for programming at a high level of ab-
        straction. Unfortunately, especially the use of 
        these concepts is often very contrary to the ex-
        pectation of high performance. Recently, new 
        techniques have been developed that help to 
        bring in line a high level of abstraction and high 
        performance. Some of these concepts are 
        template meta-programming, expression tem-
        plates, traits classes, partial and lazy evalua-
        tion.
During this course the cost of C++ abstractions 
        will be investigated and thoroughly explained; 
        several solutions to overcome the abstraction 
        penalty will be presented and applied during 
        the exercises.
Special issues of the Sun C++ Compiler will be 
        covered in more detail.
Prerequisite
        Attendees should already have some ex-
        perience with C++.
Cost    
        The workshop is organized in cooperation with the 
        Aachen University of Technology (RWTH)  and 
        the Research Center Juelich and sponsored by 
        Sun Microsystems. 
        There is no fee. All other costs (e.g. 
        travel, hotel, and consumptions) are at your own 
        expenses.
Registration and further information
        http://www.rz.rwth-aachen.de/hpc/talks/HPC++/
Contact
        Dieter an Mey, phone: +49 (0) 241 80 24377
        E-mail: anMey@rz.rwth-aachen.de
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Dieter an Mey
High Performance Computing               
Aachen University of Technology          Rechen- und Kommunikations-
Center for Computing and Communication   zentrum der RWTH Aachen
phone: ++49-(0)241-80-24377              Seffenter Weg 23
fax:   ++49-(0)241-80-22134              52074 Aachen, Germany
email: anmey@rz.rwth-aachen.de           
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