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+title: Spring school on numerical simulation and polyhedral code optimization
+author: Alain Darte
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+May 9-13, 2016
+
+St Germain au Mont d'Or, near Lyon, France
+
+[http://mathsinfohpc.sciencesconf.org/](http://mathsinfohpc.sciencesconf.org/)
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+
+An inter-disciplinary spring school is organized near Lyon, France,
+from Monday 9 to Friday 13, May 2016. The school targets both students
+and researchers in high-performance computing interested in exploring
+the potential interactions between numerical simulation applications
+and compiler optimizations.
+
+The school will focus on applications whose regularity, use of data
+structures such as arrays, and numerical intensity may make the
+automation or semi-automation of optimizations both feasible and
+useful, concentrating in particular on polyhedral analysis and
+optimizations for GPGPUs and multicores. The goal is to discuss, in
+the light of the expertise from the application side, how recent
+development of polyhedral techniques and tools can help (or not yet)
+improving the interaction between the users and the compilers.
+
+The school will be organized as 7 half-days of courses (+ 1 half-day
+of break) covering topics such as:
+
+- architecture features and manual code optimizations
+- discretization methods, stencils
+- automatic (mostly polyhedral) code analysis and optimizations
+- locality and loop tiling
+- cost models, in particular roofline model
+- automatic tools for GPGPUs and multicores
+- numerical precision
+
+with speakers from both the numerical simulation and compiler communities.
+
+People willing to attend this spring school should first signal their
+interest before April 01 (but the sooner the better, places are
+limited). See explanations on the corresponding registration web
+page. Registration fees are kept very low (for academics, 150 euros
+for a single room, 200 euros for a double room) and will cover the
+whole week (food and lodging).
+
+More details are provided on the web page of the school:
+http://mathsinfohpc.sciencesconf.org/
+
+Note that this spring school is the second event of a larger thematic
+quarter on high performance computing
+(http://hpc-milyon.universite-lyon.fr/) organized in Lyon and around,
+with several events, from April to July 2016. The other events, which
+may also be of interest for you, are:
+
+- Keynotes "HPC days" with invited speakers Eric Blayo, Jack
+Dongarra, Marc Massot, Yousef Saad, Marc Snir, Eric Sonnendrücker
+(http://hpc-days-lyon.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en) and additional
+mini-symposia on related topics.
+
+- JLESC Workshop, on exascale computing.
+
+- Tutorial and SWIM Workshop on interval methods
+(http://swim2016.sciencesconf.org/)
+
+Best regards,
+
+Violaine Louvet, Alain Darte