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.

All papers and presentations from High Performance Graphics 2011 are now available online, including the keynote presentations and the Hot3D track.

• Papers: ACM digital library
• Presentations: HPG web page

HPG11 was held in Vancouver earlier this month.

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 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.

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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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.

Topics: InPar encourages papers involving current GPU/manycore architectures, new or emerging commodity parallel architectures (such as Intel “MIC” products), and hybrid or heterogeneous systems. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Read the rest of this entry »

The deadline for submissions to “GPU’s in Databases” GID2011 workshop has been extended [ed: again...] to April 22nd, 2011. 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.  See our previous post for details.