22th September 2008

CERN

Sverre Jarp, openlab CTO, and Andrzej Nowak, openlab team member, organized and ran a full training series at the 31^st  edition of the CERN School of Computing which took place  in Gjøvik , Norway, from the 25 August  to the 5 September 2008.

The series, part of the Base Technologies theme, comprised three hours of lectures and three hours of exercises and focused on Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning. This series capitalized on the experience gained in the openlab in the context of the Platform Competence Centre.

In addition, Dr. Herbert Cornelius, Technical Director of the Intel Advanced Computing Center in EMEA , and Technical Contact for Intel-CERN openlab activities, gave an after-dinner presentation  on the theme: “From Nano-Scale to Peta-Scale Computing”.