CSCS Intel KNL: MKL-DNN, Pabst

Intel KNL: Best practices and experiences

The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) is delighted to announce its upcoming workshop "Introduction to Intel KNL architecture" to be held from Wednesday, April 5 to Friday, April 7, 2017 at CSCS in Lugano, Switzerland.

The three-day course is intended to offer an introduction to the Intel KNL architecture. Attendees will have access of the KNL machine at CSCS, ~160 nodes.

Participants are responsible for bringing a laptop with a terminal (installed by default on Apple and Linux laptops). It is preferable to have X windows installed, but not necessary.

CSCS provides access to our Test & Development System (TDS) Tavé, 1 cabinet Cray XC40, Iron Compute (KNL).

The course should focus on the following topics:

Best practices and experiences of using KNL
Intel tools usage, i.e. Advisor, VTune, Inspector
AVX-512 incl. Intrinsics
Focus on particular applications or your own code