Launch Workshop, Thurs. Nov. 12–13, 2009

Guest

Dr Tsuyoshi Hamada, Nagasaki University

2009 ACM Gordon Bell Finalist, with the paper:

1. “42 TFlops hierarchical N-body simulations on GPUs with applications in both astrophysics and turbulence” [HamadaYokotaETal2009.pdf]
   

will give a talk about his experience with a 600+ cluster of GPUs in Tokyo.

Tutorial (Friday)

1. ‣“CPU/GPU programming with CUDA” (3.5h), by Felipe Cruz, PhD candidate, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK
   

Talks (Thursday)

1. ‣“High-throughput science”
   Hanspeter Pfister, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science.
   

2. ‣“Potential impact of the ‘Experimental GPU cluster for fundamental physics’ NSF grant”
   Richard Brower, Professor of Physics and Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University.
   

3. ‣“Graphics hardware & GPU computing: past, present, and future”
   David Luebke, Senior Manager, NVIDIA Research
   

4. ‣“Diesel-powered supercomputing”
   Richard Edgar, Computational Research Scientist, Initiative in Innovative Computing, Harvard University.
   

5. ‣“Many-core acceleration in biomedical applications”
   David Kaeli, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University
   

6. ‣“GPU mixed-precision linear equation solver for lattice QCD”
   Mike Clark, Research Associate, Initiative in Innovative Computing, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science and Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
   

7. ‣“GPU metaprogramming using PyCUDA: methods and applications”
   Andreas Klöckner, PhD candidate, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University.
   

8. ‣“Unlocking brain-inspired computer vision”
   Nicolas Pinto, PhD candidate in Computational Neuroscience, MIT
   

9. ‣"High Performance Computing using GPUs: Examples from Computational Biology"
   Bharat Sukhwani, PhD candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Boston University.
   

10. ‣“Toward GPU-accelerated meshfree flow simulation”
    Lorena A Barba, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Boston University