[J3] Fwd: NA Digest, V. 19, # 19 New MOOC on Programming for High Performance

[Van Snyder]

Might be of interest to some, to compare to coarrays.

On Sun, 2019-05-12 at 22:51 -0400, NA Digest Editor wrote:
> 
> From: Robert van de Geijn rvdg at cs.utexas.edu
> Date: May 11, 2019
> Subject: New MOOC on Programming for High Performance
> 
> New MOOC on Programming for High Performance
> 
> We are excited to announce that edX has opened registration for
> "LAFF-On Programming for High Performance" [1].  This free-to-audit,
> four-week, self-paced course developed by UT-Austin faculty Robert van
> de Geijn, Maggie Myers, and Devangi Parikh starts on June 4, 2019.
> 
> The course uses the simple but important example of matrix-matrix
> multiplication to illustrate fundamental techniques for attaining
> high-performance on modern CPUs. A carefully designed sequence of
> exercises leads the learner from a naive implementation to one that
> effectively utilizes instruction level parallelism and culminates in a
> high-performance, multithreaded implementation. Along the way, it is
> discovered that careful attention to data movement is key to efficient
> computing.  In other words, learners are exposed to techniques for
> attaining high performance through carefully scaffolded exercises that
> illustrate how the BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software (BLIS) [2]
> implements dgemm, which is itself based on Goto's algorithm [3].
> 
> We believe this course is appropriate for a novice yet of interest to
> an expert.  It may be, for example, a great way to get a summer intern
> quite literally up to speed.  Others may want to use it as a component
> in a class they teach.  Some learners may merely come to the
> conclusion that they should be using high-performance libraries.
> Others may find they enjoy low level optimization.
> 
> Please help us spread the word!
> 
> [1]
> https://www.edx.org/course/laff-on-programming-for-high-performance
> 
> [2] Field G. Van Zee, Robert A. van de Geijn. BLIS: A Framework for
> Rapidly Instantiating BLAS Functionality.  ACM TOMS, 2015.
> 
> [3] Kazushige Goto, Robert A. van de Geijn. Anatomy of
> high-performance matrix multiplication. ACM TOMS, 2008.
> 
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