High Performance Computing: Writing Efficient Programs in C++ - kurs-l - lists.rwth-aachen.de

31 Jul 2002


      Announcement and kind invitation ...
Writing Efficient Programs in C++
                        Tutorial and Workshop
Time
        Tutorial 
                Mon, Sept 23, 14:00 - 17:30
                Tue, Sept 24,  9:00 - 17:30
                Wed, Sept 25,  9:00 - 17:30
                Thu, Sept 26,  9:00 - 17:30
        Tuning Workshop
                Fri, Sept 27, 9:00 - 12:30
Location
        Aachen University (RWTH)
        Center for Computing and Communication
Speakers
        Jörg Striegnitz 
                (Research Center Jülich, ZAM)
        Ruud van der Pas 
                (Sun Microsystems, Application Performance
                Specialist HPC)
Tutorial
This tutorial intends to make C++ programmers aware of the strengths
and weaknesses of the C++ programming language in the field of
scientific computing. 
It will begin with a short introduction into basic performance
tuning aspects and the Sun programming environment (compilers and
performance analyzer) and will then focus on C++ specific
programming techniques.
Classes, inheritance, operator overloading, and polymorphism are
very suitable and powerful tools for programming at a high level of
abstraction. Unfortunately, especially the use of these concepts is
often very contrary to the expectation 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 templates,
traits classes, partial and lazy evaluation. 
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. 
Registration for the Tutorial is mandatory until Sept 15.
Tuning Workshop
In this tuning workshop we are particularly interested in helping 
users of our Sun Fire SMP Cluster to improve the efficiency of
their applications. 
There is no open registration for the Tuning Workshop. 
Participation is after personal consultation only.
Cost
        The event is organized in cooperation with the Aachen 
        University (RWTH), the Research Center Jülich, and Sun 
        Microsystems. There is no seminar fee. All other costs 
        (e.g. travel, hotel, and consumptions) are at your own
        expenses.
Contact, registration and further information
        http://www.rz.rwth-aachen.de/hpc/talks/HPC++2002/
kind regards
Dieter an Mey
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Dieter an Mey
High Performance Computing               Hochleistungsrechnen
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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