Tutorials

The ISC’12 tutorials are half-day or full-day interactive courses focusing on key topics of high performance computing, networking and storage. Renowned experts in the field will give attendees a comprehensive introduction to the topic before taking a closer look at specific problems; they will incorporate hands-on components where appropriate.

Sunday, June 17

Half Day (9:00 am – 1:00 pm)

• Tutorial 1: Supporting Performance Analysis & Optimization on Extreme-scale Computer Systems – Current State & Future Directions
• Tutorial 2: Dense Linear Algebra Libraries for High Performance Computing
• Tutorial 3: InfiniBand & High-Speed Ethernet for Dummies
• Tutorial 4: Performance-oriented Programming on Multicore-based Clusters with MPI, OpenMP & Hybrid MPI/OpenMP
• Tutorial 5: Relative, Reverse & CUDA Debugging for Computationally Intensive Application Development

Half Day (2:00 pm – 6:00 pm)

• Tutorial 6: Advanced Concepts, Environments & Tools for Dynamic Extreme-Scale Parallel Programming
• Tutorial 7: High Performance Cloud Computing
• Tutorial 8: Designing High-End Computing Systems with InfiniBand & High-Speed Ethernet
• Tutorial 9: Parallel Programming with Cilk Plus
• Tutorial 10: Large Scale Data Visualization with VisIt 

Full Day (9:00 am – 6:00 pm)

• Tutorial 11: Programming Accelerators with OpenACC and CUDA C/Fortran
• Tutorial 12: Next Generation MPI Programming: Advanced MPI-2 & New Features in MPI-3 

In the Agenda Planner, Tutorials are marked in turquoise; to attend the tutorials, you need a Tutorial Pass. It allows registered attendees to move freely between all ISC’12 tutorials; it also covers tutorial notes and materials as well as morning/afternoon coffee and lunch.

Venue

The ISC’12 tutorials will be held on Sunday, June 17, 2012 at the University of Hamburg, which is just across from CCH–Congress Center Hamburg, the venue of the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) taking place June 18–21, 2012.

Hamburg University
East Wing, Rooms 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 221, 222
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20148 Hamburg

Call for Tutorials – Closed

Please note that the call for tutorials is now closed.

Important Dates

Areas of Interest

Tutorials are intended to cover all areas of interest of ISC as listed on the Call for Papers. We encourage tutorials of broad applicability over those that focus solely on the research in a limited domain or a particular group.

Tutorials may focus entirely on theoretical aspects; however, we encourage organizers to incorporate hands-on sessions where appropriate. ISC will solely provide Internet access and rooms with standard presentation equipment. Hands-on tutorials must be prepared to rely on laptops brought by the participants.

Finally, we expect proposers to consider tutorials as educational events first, therefore they should plan to provide the attendees with a comprehensive introduction to the state-of-the-art in the tutorial’s topic before moving on to cover specific approaches in more depth.

ISC’12 Tutorials will be held on Sunday, June 17, 2012, and will either be half-day tutorials (9:00 am – 1:00 pm or 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm) or full-day tutorials (9:00 am – 6:00 pm).

Responsibilities

Tutorial organizers are responsible for submitting the material to be given to attendees (slide sets, additional teaching material, software installation and usage guides for practical hands-on sessions, etc.) to the Tutorial Chair. The ISC’12 conference organizers are responsible for providing publicity for the tutorials as part of the conference publicity activities, and on-site logistical support to the tutorial organizers and attendees.

Proposal Submission

Tutorial proposals need to be submitted as a single pdf file via the EasyChair conference system by Sunday, January 22, 2012.

1. A 200-word (maximum) abstract
2. A detailed description of the tutorial content (maximum 3 pages) containing:

• Overview and Goals of the tutorial (takeaways for the audience)
• Length of the tutorial (half-day (3.5 hours) or full-day (7 hours))
• Content level (split into: beginner, intermediate, advanced)
• Targeted audience (industry, academics, researchers, developers, system administrators)
• Audience prerequisites
• Detailed outline of the tutorial

3. 2-page CV for each presenter
4. A statement agreeing to release the notes to the ISC attendees (“The presenters agree to release the tutorial notes and other material to the ISC attendees.”)

NOTE: All documents need to be uploaded as a single PDF.

The ISC’12 Tutorials Committee will review all submissions, select the most popular topics and allocate their time slots. By submitting your proposal, you agree to:

• Conduct the tutorial session at ISC’12 in Hamburg, Germany.
• Release the slides, notes and other material associated with the tutorial to the ISC attendees.

Travel Funding

In general, ISC does not fund travel/accommodation costs or similar costs, but tutorial presenters from Academia may receive travel funding of up to 750 Euros per half-day tutorial or 1,500 Euros per full-day tutorial (the amount is meant for the whole team of presenters). To find out if you are eligible for funding, please contact us at the below e-mail address.

ISC'12 Tutorials Committee

From all tutorial proposals submitted, the Tutorials Committee selects the most popular topics to be presented at ISC.

• Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA (Chair)
• Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, University of Utah, USA
• William Gropp, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA