SBAC-PAD is an annual international conference series, the first of which was held in 1987. Each conference has traditionally presented new developments in high performance applications, as well as the latest trends in computer architecture and parallel and distributed technologies. Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on a wide range of high-performance computing areas, including computer architecture, systems software, languages and compilers, algorithms, and applications. More information: http://sbac-pad-2011.lsc.ic.unicamp.br/

The 2012 Spring Simulation Multi-conference will feature the 20th High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC 2012), devoted to the impact of high performance computing and communications on computer simulations. Topics of interest include:

• high performance/large scale application case studies,
• GPUs for general purpose computations (GPGPU)
• multicore and many-core computing,
• power aware computing,
• large scale visualization and data management,
• tools and environments for coupling parallel codes,
• parallel algorithms and architectures,
• high performance software tools,
• component technologies for high performance computing.

Important dates: Paper submission due: December 2, 2011; Notification of acceptance: January 13, 2012; Revised manuscript due: January 27, 2012; Symposium: March 26–29, 2012.

The second 2-day CUDA programming workshop in Berlin takes place November 5-6. Course details, outline and prices are available at http://cuda.eventbrite.com.

NVIDIA is looking for research posters and speakers for their upcoming events including GTC Express @ SC’11, GTC Asia and GTC U.S. More information about the events, submission procedures and the speaking opportunities can be found here, and the submission system is available at this page.

A special session on the use of heterogeneous computing for water resources will be held as part of The XIX International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources, July 17-21 2012 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Submissions are due October 1st. Topics include, but are not limited to

• novel applications of heterogeneous computing resources,
• computational efficiency and performance assessment, and
• accuracy, verification and validation.

Session abstract:

This session is focused on the use of heterogeneous computing resources (i.e. the combination of multi-core CPUs and many-core GPUs) for water resources. Over the last ten years, the use of GPUs for computation has gone from academic proof-of-concepts to industrially viable applications, showing speed-ups of 5-50 times over traditional approaches. Speed is of the utmost importance for many applications in water resources, making the use of heterogeneous computing attractive. In this session, we seek presentations of the state-of-the-art of heterogeneous computing for applications in water resources. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, novel applications of heterogeneous computing resources; computational efficiency and performance assessment; and accuracy, and verification and validation.

EvoPar 2012 (EvoPAR 2012, Malaga, Spain, 11-13th April 2012) will gather scientists, engineers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of the application of evolutionary algorithms for improving parallel architectures and distributed computing infrastructures and implementation of parallel and distributed evolutionary algorithms.

Submissions are invited (by Nov. 30) on (but not limited to) the following topics:

•  Optimization of parallel architectures by means of Evolutionary Algorithms.
• Hardware implementation of EAs, including Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), GPU, games consoles, mobile devices.
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The Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering (VSCSE) will offer a hands-on course for graduate students August 15-19:

Proven Algorithmic Techniques for Manycore Processors

This course will be delivered to a number of sites nationwide—including the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—using high-definition video conferencing technologies. Students at all sites will be able to work with a cohort of fellow computational scientists, have access to local teaching assistants, and interact virtually with course instructors.

Registration for the weeklong course is $100. Please visit www.vscse.org for more information or hub.vscse.org to register.

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We are pleased to announce a three-day workshop on “Programming of Heterogeneous Systems in Physics”, a workshop to be held on 5-7 October 2011 at Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany. This workshop will focus on:

• Solving partial differential equations efficiently on the heterogeneous computing systems. There is some emphasis on GPU computing, but other accelerators and the efficient use of large multi-core cluster nodes are considered as well.
• Optimization of computational kernels coming from finite differences, spectral methods, and lattice gauge theory on accelerators.
• We plan to have a tutorial day, two days of talks and a poster session. We plan for discussion and talks to provide an overview of current work in these areas, and to develop future lines of research and collaborations. The deadline for submission of talks is 15 August 2011.

Please visit http://wwwsfb.tpi.uni-jena.de/Events/Event-PHSP11.shtml for more information. This workshop is organised by G. Zumbusch (Chair, Jena), B. Bruegmann (Jena), A. Weyhausen (Jena), L. Rezzolla (Potsdam) and B. Zink (Tuebingen).

AMD announced a GPGPU coding competition, called AMD OpenCL Coding Competition. The first phase of the competition is an open innovation challenge that requires the use of the AMD APP SDK and OpenCL. The competition is heating up with the highest registration for a TopCoder innovation challenge to date. It’s not too late to sign up and show off your ideas! If you submit your abstract before June 30th you will get feedback from AMD, otherwise you will have up until the deadline to submit your OpenCL innovation challenge submission.

Phase two of the competition will be an OpenCL algorithm optimization match that will start later in September. Read more about it in this AMD blog.

In Silicon Valley? Interested in C++? Join in an evening with Microsoft & NVIDIA to discuss new C++ technology for parallel computing. Register here: http://vnextmsvc.eventbrite.com/

• 5:45 PM Welcome & Registration
• 6:00 PM Heterogeneous Parallelism in General, C++ in AMP in Particular, presented by Herb Sutter, Principal Architect for Windows C++, Microsoft
• 7:15 PM ALM tools for C++ in Visual Studio V.NEXT, presented by Rong Lu, Program Manager C++, Microsoft
• 8:00 PM The Power of Parallel, presented by the NVIDIA Team;
  • Parallel Nsight: Programming GPUs in Visual Studio, Stephen Jones, NVIDIA;
  • CUDA 4.0: Parallel Programming Made Easy, Justin Luitjens, NVIDIA;
  • Thrust: C++ Template Library for GPGPUs, Jared Hoberock, NVIDIA

Refreshments provided.