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Sergey Nemnyugin, Full Testimonial from the Multi-Core Programming for Academia Faculty Training in Saint Petersburg, October 15-17, 2008
I was invited to Intel Software College training which took place from 15 to 17 October 2008 in Saint-Petersburg (Russian Federation) to make a report about tools and methods of high-performance computing.
In my opinion agenda of the training was drawn up in a logical manner and included topics which are very interesting to academic community dealing both with scientific research on a basis of modern computing technologies and with teaching to different areas of applied and scientific programming. Among subjects of the training were: Multi-core Architecture and Fundamental Tools, Parallel Programming Patterns, Programming with Windows Threads, Threading for Performance with Intel Threading Building Blocks, Thread Checker and Thread Profiler, Threaded Programming Methodology, Scalability of Threaded Applications. Final presentation was "Software tools of parallel programming (with examples)". Participants had possibility to get a comprehensive understanding of optimization techniques, methods of development of multithreaded and parallel software and how Intel software tools may be used in these areas. Final presentation (by Professor Sergey Nemnyugin) was an overview of some areas in computational physics where some of techniques presented by Intel staff are used.
Undoubtedly presentations in ISC training are valuable. All subjects are topical and may be integrated into university courses. Materials may be used in part or completely after more or less essential improvement. Such improvement may include development of new lab works and more detailed descriptions of parallelization techniques and software tools. In my opinion subject-oriented labs are of special interest. Such labs may be devoted to application of Intel software tools for solution of problems in computational sciences, such as computational physics and mathematics, chemistry, biology, economics and so on. Translation of materials in Russian will facilitate their dissemination. In conclusion I would like to thank staff of Intel site in Saint-Petersburg for good organization of the ISC training.
Professor,
Department of Computational Physics,
Saint-Petersburg State University,
Saint-Petersburg,
Russian Federation
