Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing http://pc2.uni-paderborn.de/ Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing de Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing http://pc2.uni-paderborn.de/typo3conf/ext/tt_news/ext_icon.gif http://pc2.uni-paderborn.de/ 18 16 Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:15:00 +0200 OpenMP Workshop http://pc2.uni-paderborn.de/ Tutorial held by Christian Terboven, RWTH Aachen - Hands-on Experiences: PC² and Ch. Terboven

OpenMP provides a standard, well-known easy-to-use parallel programming 
model for shared-memory multiprocessors and is supported by all major 
compilers. However, it is sometimes being said that this is 
not scalable enough for HPC. The goal of this tutorial is to educate programmers for better understanding of language characteristics and the implications of their decisions when choosing different parallelization patterns with OpenMP, both in terms 
of correctness and performance. After reviewing key OpenMP concepts, we will 
cover particularly tasking and the new features of OpenMP 3.1. A selection 
of tools supporting OpenMP debugging and correctness analysis will be
 presented as well. After the hands-on session, the tutorial will close with an outlook on upcoming features of OpenMP 4.0.

Christian Terboven is the deputy head of the HPC department at the Center 
for Computing and Communication at RWTH Aachen University. His research 
interests are centered around Parallel Programming, with a focus on shared-memory 
architectures, paradigms, programming languages, and related software
engineering aspects. Christian Terboven has been involved in the analysis,
 tuning, and parallelization of several large-scale simulation codes for 
various architectures. Since 2006, he is a member of the OpenMP Language
 Committee. In this context he is involved in the Affinity subcommittee,
 working on explicit support for NUMA architectures, and the Interoperability 
and Compos-ability subcommittee, taking care of integration with other
 parallel programming models and developments in the base languages.


Please register for the workshop at pc2-sek@uni-paderborn.de until April, 23rd .

The workshop is free of charge.

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PC² Kolloquium: A Chemical Approach to Packet-Flow Engineering http://pc2.uni-paderborn.de/ Dr. Thomas Meyer, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Basel, Switzerland Talks Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:41:00 +0200 PC² Kolloquium: Herausforderungen der Bereitstellung cloud-basierter Infrastrukturen http://pc2.uni-paderborn.de/ Berufungsvortrag von Dr. Matthias Hovestadt, Technische Universität Talks Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:53:00 +0100 PC² Kolloquium:Virtualisierung und Daten-Intensive Systeme in Hochleistungsumgebungen http://pc2.uni-paderborn.de/ Berufungsvortrag von Dr. Ilia Petrov, Technische Universität Darmstadt Talks Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:49:00 +0100 PC² Kolloquium: User-space Scheduling for Heterogeneous Systems under Linux http://pc2.uni-paderborn.de/ Daniel Welp - Diplomarbeit Applications that exploit accelerator hardware are governed by an individual, technology- specific software interface. No coordination or balancing between different devices is currently possible for these tasks, as up to date versions of the Linux operating sys- tem kernel lack native support for scheduling accelerator-based heterogeneous systems.  Equipping systems with accelerators is a recent trend, evident in research, industry and even in supercomputing, and thus finding a way to support scheduling applications to heterogeneous resources this is a relevant issue.

 

This thesis proposes a user-space scheduler that controls accelerator-occupation for registered tasks. A novel API makes a calling application subject to the decisions of this scheduler that runs as a user-space process. It enables task migration across hardware boundaries to support load balancing and time sharing of resources by employing coop- erative multitasking. An evaluation shows that scheduling heterogeneous resources from user-space is possible and can allow for sufficient scheduling frequencies while maintaining a low CPU-consumption. Two test implementations demonstrated increased

application performance and reduced average job turnaround times on a test system with multiple Intel CPUs and a general-purpose GPU by NVIDIA.]]>
Talks Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:57:00 +0100
PC2 Kolloquium: Leistungssteigerung von EXT2 Dateisystemen durch Separation der Metadaten http://pc2.uni-paderborn.de/ Bachelorarbeitsvortrag von Herrn Tim Hartung Talks Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:17:00 +0200 PC2 Kolloquium: Automated provisioning of virtual machines in a cloud environment http://pc2.uni-paderborn.de/ Masterarbeitsvortrag von Herrn Alexander Krieger One of the most challenging problems for data centers is the cost efficient utilization of hardware and software resources. Large data centers have a considerable interest in autonomic resource management solutions which reduce the degree of human intervention in provisioning processes. One of the challenges facing the SaaS providers is to ensure predefined performance goals (Service Level Objectives) in a stochastic environment. Various attributes like application parameters and the sharing of resources affect the overall performance behavior of a service in an unpredictable way. The purpose of this thesis is to describe and examine a machine learning approach based on Support Vector Machines (SVM) that can deal with unpredictable workload fluctuations in a horizontal scaling scenario and ensure a predefined performance goal (SLO) is met. ]]> Talks Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:52:00 +0200 Start des BMBF-Forschungsprojekts „ENHANCE“ an der Universität Paderborn http://pc2.uni-paderborn.de/ Supercomputer werden aus tausenden einzelnen Computern aufgebaut, die über ein sehr schnelles... General News Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:32:00 +0200 EDGI - Draft Press Release Vilnius http://pc2.uni-paderborn.de/ Attached, please find the press release draft on the EDGI demonstration in Vilnius in PDF format. General News Wed, 04 May 2011 13:03:00 +0200 PC2 Kolloquium: Evaluation of Java-based Filesystems http://pc2.uni-paderborn.de/ Bachelorarbeitsvortrag von Herrn Marcel Lauhoff Talks Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:22:00 +0200