11:00 - 12.00h – Modern approach to achieving maximum performance

• Multi-core / multi-threading software architectures
• Accelerated Multi-media processing (SIMD)
• Easy multi-threading prototyping (OpenMP)

12:00 - 13.00h – Using VTune’s Tuning Assist to identify Core 2 micro architecture issues

• Core 2 Duo overall micro architecture
• Front end: description; main events; Performance issues
• Execution
• Memory Sub-System

13:00 - 14.00h – Lunch & Showcase

14.00 - 15.00h – Looking for 4x speedups? SSE to the rescue!

• SSE Basic Idea.
• SSE instructions quick overview.
• SSE to accelerate heavy computational applications.
• SSE to accelerate Video encoding and Image processing.
• SSE to provide Graphics building blocks.
• Streaming auxiliary instructions.
• Using the Compiler to generate SSE
• Coding examples.

15:00 - 16.00h – Threading Building Blocks: joint use of algorithms and containers to increase application scalability

• Threading Building Blocks library overview
• More details on parallel algorithms and concurrent containers
• Scalability/performance comparison for samples using parallel algorithms and containers vs. the ones that apply parallel algorithms to data structures that require synchronization

16:00 - 16.30h – Coffee & Showcase

16.30 - 17.30h – Tools for correctness and performance tuning of threaded application

• Automatically finding data races (even those that did not accidentally occur!)
• Automatically detecting deadlocks
• Excessive synchronization harms parallel execuiton
• Threads balancing
• Granularity tuning

17:30 - 17.45h – Time to allow all people to gather in one CR again - Showcase

17:45 - 18.15h – Technology Roadmap Update and Q&A

11:00 - 12.00h – Efficient data sharing with Intel® Core™ architecture

• Sharing: Data Sharing; False Sharing
• Memory sub system
• MESI protocol from single core to multi-core environments
• Snooping and data transfer

12:00 - 13.00h – Securing the Managed Enterprise with Intel® vPro™

• Introduction to Intel® vPro™ , including value proposition and customer benefits
• Security and management applications
• Overview of the Intel AMT SDK and Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit

13.00 - 14.00h – Lunch & Showcase

14.00 - 15.00h – Trends in Data Center Networking

• Overview of Today's Enterprise Data Center
• Network Convergence in the Data Center
• I/OAT
• I/O Virtualization roadmap
• Network Security in the Data Center

15.00 - 16.00h – HW support for virtualization - Intel Virtualization technology future enhancement and usage models

• Introduction to Intel Virtualization Technologies (VT) and to Virtualization Technologies Design Methodology
• Coming VT enhancement – This section will discuss the latest enhancement to Intel virtualization technology – e.g. Secure virtualization (TXT), EPT, Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O, and virtualization performance enhancements for 1 GB and 10 GB Ethernet adapter technologies. This section will outline the industry-leading virtualization innovations for processor, chipset, and I/O technologies. Will also discuss the challenges of virtualization in the next few years.
• Virtualization performance characteristics – In this section will discuss what is virtualization performance and the challenge of defining performance metrics? How is performance measured and evolving industry benchmarks for virtualization.
• Evolving usage models – Will cover one or two evolving usages:
• Virtualization on the client - Intel® vPro™ Processor Technology. How Intel® Virtualization Technology, Intel® Active Management Technology address security issues facing businesses, including malicious viruses and spyware.
• Data Center Virtualization and Efficiency

16.00 - 16.30h – Coffee & Showcase

16.30 - 17.30h – Maximize XML/SOA Performance in the Enterprise

• An examination of Intel® XML Software Suite functionality
• Best known methods for increasing XML application efficiency in the Enterprise
• An understanding of Intel’s XML strategy and commitment

17:30 - 17.45h – Time to allow all people to gather in one CR again - Showcase

17:45 - 18.15h – Technology Roadmap Update and Q&A

11:00 - 13.00h – Lab#1: Intel Threading Building Blocks (Anton Pegushin)

• The purpose of this Lab is to show possible applications of Intel Threading Building Blocks library components to the problem of obtaining high-performance, scalable algorithms.
• Participants will learn how to use parallel algorithms, concurrent containers and low-level underlying library mechanism - tasks scheduling.

13.00 - 14.00h – Lunch & Showcase

14:00 - 17.30h – LAB #2 Optimization contest (Alexander Sterkin)

• Participants of the contest will optimize initial set of functions, so that the program will generate correct result in minimal time
• Participants will use Intel SW tools, which will help them identifying hotspots
• Winners of the contest will get some small gifts

17:30 - 17.45h – Time to allow all people to gather in one CR again - Showcase

17:45 - 18.15h – Technology Roadmap Update and Q&A