Developed in partnership with NVIDIA, this hands-on four day course will teach students how to write and optimize applications that fully leverage the multi-core processing capabilities of the GPU. Taught by Acceleware developers who bring real world experience to the class room, students will benefit from:

• Hands-on exercises and progressive lectures
• Individual laptops equipped with NVIDIA GPUs for student use
• Small class sizes to maximize learning

July 29 – August 1, 2013, San Jose, CA, USA. More information: http://www.acceleware.com/training/913

This webinar will present CUDA, focusing on practical aspects. The webinar will be conducted by APC, supported by NVIDIA. The webinar will be held Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 11:00-12:00 am Moscow time. Participants are asked to register at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8697482572284069888

The LEAP (Low-energy application parallelism) conference hosts an interactive tutorial on applying formal analysis and verification techniques to OpenCL and CUDA kernels on Wed 22nd May 2013 in London,UK. Whether working on kernels for supercomputing, finance or mobile applications this tutorial will help developers overcome the common pitfalls in GPU programming such as data races and barrier divergence. Using plenty of worked examples and demos to encourage interactive discussion this session will highlight the practical benefits of using formal verification techniques to prove that kernels are free from defects. More information: http://www.leapconf.com

This workshop, held in conjunction with RANLP 2013 on 12/13 September, aims to introduce contemporary work and to discuss novel methods for natural language processing at a large scale, and explore how the resulting technology and methods can be reused in applications both on the Web and in
the physical world. More information, including submission instructions: https://sites.google.com/site/scanlp2013

The 1st International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL) will be held on May 13th/14th at Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia. IWOCL is an annual meeting of vendors, researchers and developers to promote the evolution and advancement of the OpenCL standard. The first workshop has an exciting full program, including a full day of tutorials, followed by a full day of keynotes, papers, and panels. More information can can be found here: http://iwocl.org.

Agent-Based Simulation Models are an increasingly popular tool for research and management in many fields such as ecology, economics and sociology. In some fields, such as social sciences, these models are seen as a key instrument to the generative approach, essential for understanding complex social phenomena. But also in policy-making, biology, military simulations, control of mobile robots and economics, the relevance and effectiveness of Agent-Based Simulation Models is recently recognized.

Several frameworks have been recently developed and are active in this field. They range from GPU-manycore approaches to parallel and/or distributed simulation environments.

The key objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers that are interested in getting more performances from their simulations by using:

• synchronized, many-core simulations (e.g., GPUs)
• strongly coupled, parallel simulations (e.g. MPI)
• loosely coupled, distributed simulations (distributed heterogeneous setting)

For details please visit http://www.padabs.org/

Northeastern University and Boston University, together with NVIDIA, are hosting a “GPUs Accelerating Research” Week next month.

On the first day, Wednesday 4/24, Northeastern is hosting a day of talks focused on how graphics processors are accelerating new and interesting areas of research in novel ways. The goal of this meeting is to provide a venue for both industry and academia to come together to discuss these innovations, and explore what lies ahead in GPU acceleration. Given that we have limited space in this one-day workshop, papers not selected for presentation at the workshop will have the option to present at a poster session to be held during the workshop. Please visit our website for registration and other details.

On the second day, Thursday 4/25, Boston University is hosting an all-day CUDA and OpenACC developer’s workshop. Prerequisites for getting the most out of this workshop are a basic understanding of C and the Linux command line. More details can be found here.

As the word “UnConventional” in the title suggests, the workshop focuses on hardware or platforms used for HPC, which were not intended for HPC in the first place. Reasons could be raw computing power, good performance per watt, or low cost in general. To address this unconventional hardware, often, new programming approaches and paradigms are required to make best use of it. A second focus of the workshop is on innovative, (yet) unconventional new programming models. To this end, UCHPC tries to capture solutions for HPC which are unconventional today but could become conventional and significant tomorrow, and thus provide a glimpse into the eventual future of HPC. The goal of the workshop is to present latest research in how hardware and software (yet) unconventional for HPC is or can be used to reach goals such as best performance per watt. UCHPC also covers according programming models, compiler techniques, and tools.

UCHPC is held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2013, August 26 – August 30, Aachen, Germany. More information,including the full call for papers, submission instructions and important dates: uchpc13.cs.tum.edu

The following new webinars about NVIDIA Tesla K20 have been announced. During these live webinars, developers will be able to get answers directly from the presenters.

• In French: March 4, 2013 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CET: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/395558514
• In German: March 7, 2013 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CET: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/801382202
• In English: March 8, 2013 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CET: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/701679306

Calling all software development innovators in general purpose GPU (GPGPU), data parallel and heterogeneous computing. On November 11-14, 2013 AMD will host the AMD 2013 Developer Summit in San Jose California. The AMD Developer Summit conference board has issued a call for presentation proposals, inviting creators of next-generation software to share research and development work through presentations based on the latest technical papers or reports.

The AMD Developer Summit will be a great venue for developers, academics and innovative entrepreneurs to network with others engaged in related work, collectively defining the future course of heterogeneous computing. And delivering a presentation offers you the perfect opportunity to advocate programming paradigms or gain support for industry standards.

The submission deadline is Mar. 15, 2013, and the submission website is available at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ads2013