When

Tuesday September 23, 2014 from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM EDT
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McGill New Residence Hall 
3625 Park Avenue
Montreal, QC H2X 3P8
 

 
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Brad Wheeler 
Plan 365 Inc 
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Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor
Developer Training Event
Montreal, Quebec

Event Details:

Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Registration Begins: 8:30AM 
Presentation: 9:00AM to 4:00PM 
Lunch will be provided.

McGill University
McGill New Residence Hall
Prince Arthur B
3625 Park Avenue
Montreal, QC H2X 3P8 

Please complete a very brief pre-training questionnaire at the following URL: 
http://www.colfax-intl.com/nd/svy.aspx?ryqb

This one-day training will provide software developers the foundation needed for modernizing their code to take advantage of parallel architectures found in both the Intel® Xeon® processor and the Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor.

The session will cover:

  • An overview of parallel programming frameworks and optimization guidelines for multi-core CPUs (Intel® Xeon®) and many-core coprocessors (Intel® Xeon Phi™)
  • Discussions about three layers of parallelism: SIMD, Threads, Cluster environment
  • Tips for quick porting/development of HPC software applications
  • Real-life examples of code and optimization techniques
  • Hardware solution and corresponding software implementations, APIs, and framework