The next GPU Technology Conference, GTC 2012, will be held May 14-17 2012, in San Jose, California. Los Alamos National Laboratory’s co-located Accelerated High Performance Computing (HPC) Symposium will move to the same week, as will the new InPar 2012 academic conference, geared towards providing a first-tier venue for peer-reviewed publications in the field of innovative parallel computing.

On June 28, 2011 StreamComputing will present a one-day course on OpenCL in Utrecht. The course covers general GPU computing principles and OpenCL specifics in a top-down fashion, including lectures and short lab sessions.  Topics include:

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The 2nd International Workshop on GPUs and Scientific Applications (GPUScA 2011) will be held on October 10, 2011, in conjunction with the International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2011).

The goal of this workshop is to bring together GPU experts with computational science experts. The workshop addresses programming approaches and key techniques to leverage the computing power of GPUs. Experiences gained while adapting scientific codes to run efficiently on such architectures are welcome. The workshop solicits unpublished papers about research challenges and advances addressing porting of scientific codes and algorithms to GPU platforms.

Submission deadline: June 28, 2011. The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:

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A new GPU users group is being established in South Africa. The first event will be held June 9, 2011. For more information, see http://www.meetup.com/GPGPU-ZA/

A 2 day CUDA workshop will be held in Berlin from July 2-3, for developers who want to learn how to program and utilize the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) using NVIDIA’s CUDA programming framework. No prior knowledge of parallel computing concepts is necessary, but some basic C/C++ knowledge will be required. More information is available at http://cuda.eventbrite.com.

The SoCal GPGPU group has a regular meeting once a month at UCLA, plus other occasional get togethers. Join the group, come to one of the talks, and tell them what you do with GPUs. More Info: http://www.meetup.com/SoCal-GPGPU-and-Commodity-Parallel-Programming-Group/

You are cordially invited to attend the GPU Solutions to Multiscale Problems in Science and Engineering Workshop 2011 (GPU-SMP’2011).  The workshop will be held in Dunhuang, Gansu, China July 18 – 21, 2011 (Monday through Thursday) with a reception on July 18th.  This workshop will cover topics on GPU Solutions to Multiscale Problems in Science and Engineering, including high performance computing methods, advanced software realization and construction of computing environments, and investigations of the mainstream developing trend and key scientific problems of GPUs in computing and visualization technology. Dunhuang is a beautiful city with a long history in China. During the workshop, attendees will have the opportunity to access local attractions.  Full details at http://gpu-smp2011.csp.escience.cn/

Facing the Multicore Challenge II – Conference for Young Scientists, will be held September 28-30, 2011, at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

The conference focuses on topics of multi-/manycore and coprocessor technologies and the impact on computational science, day-to-day work, and for large-scale applications. The goal is to address and discuss current issues including mathematical modeling, numerical methods, design of parallel algorithms, aspects of microprocessor architecture, parallel programming languages, compilers, hardware-aware computing, heterogeneous platforms, emerging architectures, tools, performance tuning, and requirements for large-scale applications.

The conference places emphasis on the support and advancement of young scientists in an interdisciplinary environment.
You are cordially invited to submit a paper with unpublished and original  work. Furthermore, ongoing research can be presented in a short talk or poster.

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A special session on GPU and hybrid computing will be held in conjunction with PDP2012, the 20th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing, in February 2012 in Garching, Germany. Submissions are cordially invited including but not limited to the following topics:

• GPU computing, multi GPU processing, hybrid computing;
• Programming models, programming frameworks, CUDA, OpenCL, communication libraries;
• Mechanisms for mapping codes;
• Task allocation;
• Fault tolerance;
• Performance analysis;
• Applications: image processing, signal processing, linear algebra, numerical simulation, optimization; Domains: computer science, electronic, embedded systems, telecommunication, medical imaging, finance

More information including submission and publication details are available at http://conf.laas.fr/GPU/.

We are pleased to announce the 2011 Innovative Parallel Computing: Foundations & Applications of GPU, Manycore, and Heterogeneous Systems (InPar’11). This new conference provides a first-tier academic venue for peer-reviewed publications in the emerging fields of parallel computing, encompassing the topics of GPU computing, manycore computing, and heterogeneous computing.

InPar has dual focus on “Foundations”—the fundamental advances in parallel computing itself—and “Applications”—case studies and lessons learned from the application of commodity parallel computing in domains across science and engineering. The goal of InPar is to bring together researchers in the myriad fields being revolutionized by GPUs to share experiences, discover commonalities, and both inform and learn from the computer scientists working on the foundations of parallel computing.

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