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

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

The International Conference on Multicore Software Engineering, Performance, and Tools (MUSEPAT) is a forum for researchers and practitioners that face the multicore and distributed software challenge, addressing the full software development life-cycle of concurrent systems – software specification and design, programing models and techniques, testing, analysis, and debugging. The conference welcomes original, previously unpublished regular, and industrial papers, as well as tool presentations.

Abstracts are due 5 March 2013 and full papers 12 March 2013. The symposium will be 19–20 August 2013 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. More information is available at http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/musepat2013.

High Performance Graphics is the leading international forum for performance-oriented graphics systems research including innovative algorithms, efficient implementations, and hardware architecture. The conference brings together researchers, engineers, and architects to discuss the complex interactions of parallel hardware, novel programming models, and efficient algorithms in the design of systems for current and future graphics and visual computing applications. The program features three days of paper and industry presentations, with ample time for discussions during breaks, lunches, and the conference banquet. The conference is co-located with SIGGRAPH 2013 in Anaheim, California, and will take place on July 19-21, 2013 (the weekend before SIGGRAPH). More information, calls for papers and posters and submission instructions are available at http://www.highperformancegraphics.org.

From a recent announcement:

GTC is the largest conference dedicated to heterogeneous parallel computing to solve the most complex computational challenges and features 300+ sessions over four days.

Whether you’re a commercial developer responsible for getting applications or products to market quickly or a researcher whose results are tied to important funding sources, GTC 2013 offers exceptional opportunities to learn directly from some of the foremost thinkers and practitioners in parallel computing. Immerse yourself in the best practices, solutions, and techniques that can help you enhance your skills, improve your workflow, and accelerate time to your all-important results.

Register today at http://www.gputechconf.com/page/registration-pricing.html.

Attended GTC before? You’re entitled to a 15% discount off a Full Conference or One-Day Conference pass. Please use discount code GMALUM15 when you register.

Supercomputing luminaries and experts like Jack Dongarra and Takayuki Aoki will be presenting in NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Theater at SC12. Talks will happen every 30 minutes and will also be webcast live with interactive Q&A on NVIDIA’s website. For the complete lineup of science and developer talks visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/sc12-technology-theater.html. SC12 takes place Nov. 10-16 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

We’re looking for novel or interesting research topics in GPU computing, computer graphics, cloud graphics, game development, and applications of GPUs. We strongly encourage international attendees to submit early in order to receive notifications in time for US visa deadlines. Learn more at http://www.gputechconf.com/page/home.html.

The Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel and Lessius Hogeschool have the pleasure to invite you to a symposium on Personal High-Performance Computing. The symposium aims at bringing together academia and industry to discuss recent advances in using accelerators such as GPUs or FPGAs for speeding up computational-intensive applications. We target single systems such as PCs, laptops or processor boards, hence the name ‘personal’ HPC.

Scientists are encouraged to submit abstracts to be presented at the poster session. All information can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/phpc2012bxl.

This workshop is concerned with the comparison of high-performance computing systems through performance modeling, benchmarking or the use of tools such as simulators. We are particularly interested in research which reports the ability to measure and make tradeoffs in software/hardware co-design to improve sustained application performance. We are also keen to capture the assessment of future systems, for example through work that ensures continued application scalability through peta- and exa-scale systems.

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The 2012 International Workshop on GPU Computing in Clouds (GPU-Cloud 2012) will he held December 03-06 2012 in Taipei, Taiwan, in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science. Important Dates:

• Submission Deadline: August 17, 2012
• Authors Notification: September 11, 2012
• Final Manuscript Due: September 28, 2012
• Workshop: December 04, 2012

Submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gpucloud2012