Dates

• March 28 - 30, 2011

Location

• Jacobs University Bremen
  Westhall Building, Basement, Room 1 (Large Teaching Lab)

Scope

• This course gives on introduction to optimization strategies for programs using a single-processor (i.e. non-parallel). The course aims at scientists who do actual development of programs for numerical applications and want to learn how to improve the performance of their program. Solid fundamentals in Unix, C and/or Fortran will be essential!

Lecturer

• The course is held by Dr. Hinnerk Stüben (ZIB, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin).

Participation

• The course is open to members of the University Bremen, the Jacobs University Bremen, Hochschule Bremerhaven, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, as well as associated institutions.

Registration

• For registration please send an e-mail to bremhlr@uni-bremen.de
• Deadline: March 21, 2011
• No registration fee!

Times:

• Monday 28.3.11 14.00 - 17.00
• Tuesday 29.3.11 9.00 - 17.00
• Wednesday 30.3.11 9.00 - 14.30

Course Outline:

• history of hardware development
• pipeline processing
• vectorization
• arrays and loops
• data dependence analysis
• memory hierarchy
• data caches
• main memory
• virtual memory
• compilers
• optimization tips
• program analysis
• static anlysis
• run-time analysis