CERN School of Computing enriches its portfolio of events: first thematic CSC next spring

tCSC2013 is a new concept prototyped for the first time in 2013. It aims at complementing 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:
  1.    Academic dimension on advanced topic
  2.    Theory and practice
  3.    Networking and socialization.
 
The first thematic CSC will take place in Split, Croatia, from 3 to 7 June. All applicants are welcome, including former and future CSC participants in the main summer school.
 
The theme is "Mastering state-of-the-art computing", covering:
  1. Data-oriented design: Designing for data, data-intensive applications, vectorization.
  2. Memory programming: Memory effects in hardware, choosing data structures, non-uniform memory.
  3. Parallelism: Threads, tasks, problems and overheads, parallelization technologies and environments.
  4. 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 2013.
 
François Fluckiger, CSC Director