CERN School of Computing: second thematic school next spring
tCSC2014 continues the concept prototyped last year. It aims to complement the existing portfolio of CSC events: the historical main summer school, organised since 1970, the inverted CSCs (iCSCs) organized since 2005, and the special schools, as organised in 2006 in Bombay.
Shorter, smaller, focused are the three distinguishing features of the thematic CSC (tCSC). But, though different from the main CSCs, the tCSCs maintain the same guiding principles:
- Academic dimension on advanced topic
- Theory and practice
- Networking and socialisation.
The second thematic CSC will take place in Split, Croatia, from 16 to 20 June. All applicants are welcome, including former and future CSC participants in the main summer school. The theme is "Future high-throughput scientific computing", covering:
- Data-oriented design: Designing for data, data-intensive applications, vectorization.
- Memory programming: Memory effects in hardware, choosing data structures, non-uniform memory.
- Programming for Concurrency: Expressing parallelism pragmatically, resource protection and thread safety.
- Efficient computing: Architecture refresher (big and small cores), accurate and efficient floating point, compilers: their strengths and weaknesses, advanced performance monitoring and tuning.
Applications will be accepted until 31 January 2014.
See practical information as well as how to apply.
More on http://cern.ch/csc.
by Alberto Pace, CSC Director
