Academic Training Lectures | Introduction to Parallelism, Concurrency and Acceleration | 19-20 January

Please note that the next series of Academic Training Lectures will take place on 19 and 20 January 2016. The lectures will be given by Andrzej Nowak (TIK Services, Switzerland).

An Introduction to Parallelism, Concurrency and Acceleration (1/2)
on Tuesday, 19 January from 11 a.m. to 12 noon
https://indico.cern.ch/event/404682/

An Introduction to Parallelism, Concurrency and Acceleration (2/2)
on Wednesday, 20 January from 11 a.m. to 12 noon
https://indico.cern.ch/event/404683/

at CERN IT Amphitheatre (31-3-004)

Description: Concurrency and parallelism are firm elements of any modern computing infrastructure, made even more prominent by the emergence of accelerators. These lectures offer an introduction to these important concepts. We will begin with a brief refresher of recent hardware offerings to modern-day programmers. We will then open the main discussion with an overview of the laws and practical aspects of scalability. Key parallelism data structures, patterns and algorithms will be shown. The main threats to scalability and mitigation strategies will be discussed in the context of real-life optimisation problems.