Following in the footsteps of the highly successful GPU Users meetup groups in Brisbane, Sydney, Perth and Melbourne, Australia, new GPU meetup groups are popping up around the USA and other countries. Professional “meetup” groups have now formed in New York City, Silicon Valley, Boston, Chicago, Albuquerque and Tokyo, bringing practitioners together to discuss the applications, methods, and technical challenges of using GPUs for algorithm acceleration. The events are free to attend. More information can be found at http://gpu.meetup.com/.

Check out our User Groups page for more.

FGC 2011 – The Second International Workshop on Frontier of GPU Computing, is held in conjunction with CSE 2011, Dalian, China, 24 – 26 August, 2011. More information can be found at http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~chxw/fgc2011/index.php.

The First International Workshop on Characterizing Applications for Heterogeneous Exascale Systems (co-located with ICS, June 4, 2011) is intended to provide evaluations of the characteristics of computational kernels and applications, and how different software stacks impact them, to guide future accelerator-based HPC system designs.

We solicit papers on all aspects of HPC application studies, especially those that involve accelerators such as GPUs, FPGAs, etc. The topics include (but are not limited to):

• Categorizing/characterizing of HPC applications and kernels with respect to patterns in computation structure, communication, cache accesses, memory, I/O, and file accesses.
• Evaluating the importance of individual kernels within an entire application.
• Modeling for applications running on accelerator-based heterogeneous HPC systems.
• Implication of workload characterization in heterogeneous design issues.
• Benchmarking of applications, kernels or software stacks and tools supporting applications.

The call for papers and more details about the workshop may be found on the website.

Submissions are cordially invited for the Workshop on GPU Computing, held with PPAM 2011 — 9th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, September 11-14, 2011, Torun, Poland. This workshop is organised by Josep R. Herrero, Enrique S. Quintana-Orti, and Robert Strzodka.

GPU programming is now a much richer environment that it used to be a few years ago. On top of the two major programming languages, CUDA and OpenCL, libraries (e.g., cufft) and high level interfaces (e.g., thrust) have been developed that allow a fast access to the computing power of GPUs without detailed knowledge or programming of GPU hardware.

Annotation-based programming models (e.g., PGI Accelerator), GPU plug-ins for existing mathematical software (e.g., Jacket in Matlab), GPU script languages (e.g., PyOpenCL), and new data parallel languages (e.g., Copperhead) bring GPU programming to a new level. Read the rest of this entry »

Exploitation of novel computer architectures, such as general purpose GPUs, is allowing researchers to accelerate the realization of frontier models in particle-based simulation, by enabling an increase in the level of realism in the description of the particles and their interactions and increasing both the number of particles and the timescales simulated.

This one-day meeting focuses on the new and exciting area of the exploitation of GPUs and related technology in the area of biomolecular simulations.

In addition to a programme of national and international speakers in the field, there is the opportunity to present a poster on your research. Read the rest of this entry »

This meeting is organized by Toby Breckon & Stuart Barnes (Cranfield University) and the British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition. It will be held in London, UK, on 18 May 2011. The CfP poster is available at http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/~toby.breckon/events/bmva_symp_gpu11.pdf.
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The fourth International workshop and tutorial on Computational Intelligence on Consumer Games and Graphics Hardware (CIGPU 2011) will be held as a workshop in the GECCO-2011 conference in Dublin 12-16 July 2011. Submissions are invited in (but not limited to) the following areas:

• Parallel genetic programming (GP) on GPU
• Parallel genetic algorithms (GA) on GPU
• Parallel evolutionary programming (EP) on GPU
• Associated or hybrid computational intelligence techniques on GPU
• Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO)
• Ant colony
• Parallel search algorithms
• Data mining
• Differential Evolution on GPU
• Computational Biology or Bioinformatics on GPU
• Evolutionary computation on video game platforms
• Evolutionary computation on mobile devices

See: http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2011/workshops.html#cigpu and http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/cigpu/ for more information.

Almost all the presentations from the recent UK GPU Computing Conference held on December 13-14 2010 in Cambridge  are now available at http://www.many-core.group.cam.ac.uk/ukgpucc2/programme.shtml. Over 100 delegates saw a varied mix of talks from both industry and academia over the 2 day meeting.

The “GPUs in Databases” workshop is devoted to sharing the knowledge related to applying GPUs in database environments and to discuss possible future development of this application domain. The workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

• GPU based data compression (lossless/lossy compression and decompression, real time compression and decompression of multimedia)
• GPUs in databases and data warehouses (join processing, data indexing, data aggregation, bulk query processing, analytical query processing)
• Data mining using GPUs (classification, frequent itemsets and association rules, frequent subgraphs, sequential patterns, clustering, social networks mining, regression)
• GPUs in streaming databases (query processing in streaming databases, stream compression/decompression)
• Applications of GPUs in bioinformatics

The workshop will take place on September 19th, 2011 and is co-located with ADBIS 2011 in Vienna, Austria. Submissions are due April 5th, 2011. All of accepted submissions will be published in CEUR workshop proceedings and the best papers will also be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science and Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences.

More detailed information can be found at the workshop website http://gid2011.cs.put.poznan.pl.

From a recent announcement:

Calling all software development innovators in general purpose GPU (GPGPU), data parallel and heterogeneous computing. On June 13-16, 2011 AMD will host the AMD Fusion Developer Summit (AFDS) in Bellevue, Washington. The AFDS 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.

AFDS 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 Feb. 4 2011, and the full call is available at http://amd-member.com/newsletters/DevCentral/1012.html.