Welcome  to  tCSC2013 , the first thematic CERN School of Computing.

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, organized since 1970, the inverted CSCs (iCSCs) organized since 2005, and the special schools, as organized in 2006 in Bombay.

Shorter, smaller, focused are the three distinguishing features of tCSC. But, though different from the main CSCs, the  tCSC maintain the same guiding principles:
   1. Academic dimension on Advanced topic
   2. Theory and practice
   3. Networking and socialization

We hope this initiative will receive a favorable response from all those, newcomers to CSCs or former participants interested in deepening their knowledge on state of the art computing.

François Fluckiger, Director, CERN School of Computing

Sumary of tCSC2013 theme

Do you have what it takes to squeeze out a modern computer like a lemon? This weeklong intensive training is an advanced dive into software, tools and techniques for exploiting current computing hardware. Core topics include practical use of relevant software methodologies for parallelization, efficient use of compilers, performance optimization, controlled floating point calculations – all coupled with hands-on exercises. In addition to the core teaching material, a range of supplementary topics is offered, such as select aspects of supercomputing, accelerated processing and others. Finally, perspectives on cutting edge software and hardware will be presented, along with a vision of projected developments and their possible consequences.

Chair-person, Local Organising Committee Ivica Puljak, University of Split (FESB) 

Lecturers

Mastering State of the Art Computing

Data oriented design
Designing for data, data-intensive applications, vectorization

Memory programming
Memory effects in hardware, choosing data structures, non-uniform memory

Parallelism
Threads, tasks, problems and overheads, parallelization technologies and environments

Efficient computing
Architecture refresher (big and small cores), accurate and efficient floating point, compilers: their strengths and weaknesses, advanced performance monitoring and tuning

Acceleration
Principles of programming for accelerators, programming modes, GPU (CUDA) and MIC/Xeon Phi