This free webinar series presents tools, tips, and techniques that will help sharpen your development skills on developing and improving your high performance compute applications for multicore and manycore on Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors. Expert technical teams at Intel as well as open source innovators discuss development tools, programming models, vectorization and execution models that will get your development efforts powered up to get the best out of your applications and platforms.
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Sept 17 | Announcing Intel® Parallel Studio XE SP1 & Intel® Cluster Studio XE SP1 - What's New | Please join us for a technical presentation on the new features found in the recently released Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2013 SP1 Intel® Cluster Studio XE SP1. This release includes support for compilers and performance analysis on Intel® Xeon Phi™ on Windows*. The technical presentation will briefly cover new features for both C++ and Fortran on Linux*, Windows*, and OS X* operating systems as well as error checking and performance profiling tools. Learn how to efficiently boost your application performance! | AnnaLee Embry/Gergana Slavova | |
Sept 18 | Powering up your Fortran Applications in the Neo-heterogenous World with Intel® Xeon Processors & Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessors on Linux and Windows* | The Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor offers Intel® Fortran Composer XE programmers the opportunity to power up existing Fortran applications. This webinar will focus only on Fortran and the Intel® Xeon Phi coprocessor. This webinar is ideal for the experienced Fortran developers who have not tried the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor but want to see what it will take to modify their existing Fortran applications to take advantage of it. Some existing knowledge of vectorization, memory alignment, and OpenMP* is helpful but not necessary. Coarray Fortran will not be covered in this webinar. Join us as our technical experts discuss the Fortran programming models, vectorization, and execution models that will get your development efforts powered up to get the best out of the Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor. | Ron Green | |
Sep 24 & 25 | Intel® Xeon® Processors & Xeon® Phi™ Coprocessors - Introduction to High Performance Application Development for Multicore and Manycore-Live | This two day webinar series introduces you to the world of multicore and manycore computing with Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors. Expert technical teams at Intel discuss development tools, programming models, vectorization, and execution models that will get your development efforts powered up to get the best out of your applications and platforms. | Technical Consulting Engineering Team | |
Oct 1 | Become a C++ Hot Spot Hotshot with Intel® Parallel Studio XE | Are you looking to boost your application performance with just a small time investment? Look no further than the tools provided in Intel® Parallel Studio XE . In this short webinar we demonstrate how to use the Hot Spot performance analysis in Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE to quickly find your application hot spots. Knowing where the hot spots are in your code allows you to use the explicit vector programming features in Intel® C++ Composer XE to boost performance of these code sections. Join one of Intel’s knowledgeable support engineers as we demonstrate how a small time investment can yield big returns in application performance. | JD Patel | |
Oct 8 | Finding the Right Fit for Your Application on Intel® Xeon Processors and Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessors | Not all applications are created equal. Some are chomping at the bit to harvest as much parallelism as a target platform can provide. Those may be good candidates for running on an Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor. Other applications are scalar (not vectorized) and sequential (not threaded). They won't even make full use of an Intel Xeon processor, much less an Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor. Before moving to a highly-parallel platform, the developer-tuner needs to expose enough parallelism to hit the limits of the Intel Xeon platform. Join us as we explore finding the right fit for applications on Intel(r) Xeon processors and Intel(r) Xeon Phi coprocessors. | CJ Newburn | |
Oct 15 | Powered by MKL Accelerating NumPy and SciPy Performance with Intel® MKL- Python | NumPy/SciPy are scientific libraries for Python. R is a programming language for statistics computing. These tools, especially their open source packages, have gained popularity among programmers in scientific and statistic computing. A fundamental component in both NumPy/SciPy and R are the linear algebra functions, which rely on the standard BLAS and LAPACK routines. Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL) provides a high performance implementation of BLAS and LAPACK that is optimized for Intel architectures. This webinar discusses building the open source NumPy/SciPy and R with Intel MKL to significantly improve the performance of linear algebra operations. Beyond BLAS and LAPACK, there are other functions in Intel MKL that can provide great performance benefit. This webinar will give a quick tutorial on how to extend NumPy/SciPy and R by writing a wrapper for an Intel MKL function and then use it from NumPy/SciPy or R programs. | Zhang Zhang / Vipin Kumar | |
Oct 22 | Introduction to OpenMP 4.0 for SIMD and Affinity Features with Intel® Xeon Processors and Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessors | Continuing its long tradition of standards-based software products, Intel® has implemented new OpenMP features that enhance the usage of its hardware products. The newly-released OpenMP 4.0 specification (http://www.openmp.org) contains several features that are especially useful with Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors. The accelerator feature is a standardized way to program off-loading computations to such devices. The SIMD feature is a standardized way to engage the 512-bit wide SIMD capability on Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors. The affinity feature gives users the ability to pin threads to cores in a new, more sophisticated way. Taken together, these OpenMP 4.0 features can help the user maximize performance on the new Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors, while at the same time always applying to standard Intel® Xeon processors, preserving your software investment. | Michael Klemm | |
Oct 29 | Secrets of Performance Profiling – An Introduction to Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE | Intel® VTune Amplifier XE is a powerful performance profiler with many highly-configurable ways to collect and view data. This webinar will introduce the most common and efficient ways for new users to identify performance issues in their applications. It will describe the key concepts of performance analysis including the Best-Known-Methods for identifying the low hanging fruit in the performance tuning process. | Gary Carelton | |
Oct 29 | Profiling MPI Communications - Tips and Techniques for High Performance | Is your MPI application performing optimally on your cluster? Understanding MPI application behavior, quickly finding bottlenecks, and achieving high performance for parallel cluster applications is critical. Join us as we show how to effectively analyze MPI performance, speed up parallel application runs, locate hotspots and bottlenecks, and compare trace files with graphics providing extensively detailed analysis and aligned timelines. | Gergana Slavova / James Tullos | |
Oct 30 | Advanced Profiling with Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE Part 1: Find the bottleneck | Learn how to use Intel(r) VTune(tm) Amplifier XE to find the primary microarchitectural bottleneck in your application. See an in-depth demo of the “General Exploration” analysis type, and a case study on interpreting General Analysis results and making iterative optimizations. | Jackson Marusarz | |
Oct 30 | Advanced Profiling with Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE Part 2: Tune for Haswell (Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge) | Build on the knowledge from part 1. Learn to identify the common sources of microarchitectural bottlenecks in modern software. For each issue, you’ll learn why it matters, what causes it, some techniques to resolve it, and where to find follow-up resources. | Shannon Cepeda | |
Nov 5 | Software Architects: Design and Prototype Scalable Threading using Intel® Advisor XE | Breakthrough techniques for threading design let architects and lead designers quickly evaluate alternative designs. Project threading performance impact for systems with from 2 to 512 cores. Learn how to quickly compare the performance scaling of alternative threading designs and find synchronization errors before investing in implementation. Evaluate alternative designs without disrupting normal development. | Ravi Kumar Vemuri | |
Nov 6 | Precision Memory Leak Detection Using the New On-Demand Leak Detection in Intel® Inspector XE | Intel Inspector XE now gives you the ability to set and reset memory baselines and ask for memory leak information from your program whenever you want it. You will learn how to skip analysis of sections of the code you are not interested in, how to choose whether memory growth or on-demand leak detection is the right tool for you, and how to choose the correct analysis level to use, whether you are looking for that one pesky leak or looking to set up a QA process to find future leaks. | Hollly Wilper | |
Nov 12 | Porting and Tuning of Lattice QCD* and MPI-HMMER* for Intel® Xeon Processors & Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessors | The Intel Xeon Phi architecture from Intel Corporation features parallelism at the level of many x86-based cores, multiple threads per core, and vector processing units. Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (LQCD) is of importance in studies of nuclear and high energy physics and MPI-HMMER is an open source MPI implementation of the HMMR protein analysis suite and important to life science research. Technical experts at Intel describe the process and experience with optimizing key kernels for the Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor and to achieve performance on the applications with the addition of an Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor over a Intel® Xeon E5 system. | Frances Roth |