The High performance computational systems Biology (www.hibi.it) special session of CMSB 2011 (http://contraintes.inria.fr/CMSB11/) establishes a forum to link researchers in the areas of parallel computing and computational systems biology. Experts from around the world will present their current work, discuss profound challenges, new ideas, results, applications and their experience relating to key aspects of high performance computing in biology. Topics of interest include: Workload partitioning strategies, Parallel stochastic simulation, Biological and Numerical parallel computing, Parallel and distributed architectures, General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Hardware, Emerging processing architecture (Cell processors, FPGA, PlayStation3, etc.),
Parallel model checking techniques, Parallel parameter estimation, Parallel sensitivity analysis, Parallel algorithms for biological network analysis, Application of concurrency theory to biology, Parallel visualization algorithms, Web-services and Internet computing for e-Science, Grid/Could/P2P/High performance computing for biology, Multicore and Cluster computing for biology, Tools and applications.

The call for papers is now open, please refer to www.hibi.it for details.

Please consider submitting your work to the 2011 Emerging Applications and Many-core Architectures workshop, colocated with ISCA. Deadline for submissions is April 15th, the workshop takes place on June 4th in San Jose, California, US. For more details refer to the workshop page: http://sites.google.com/site/eamaworkshop/home

The fourth International workshop and tutorial on Computational Intelligence on Consumer Games and Graphics Hardware (CIGPU 2011) will be held in Dublin 13 July 2011. Submissions are invited in (but not limited to): Parallel genetic algorithms, GP, EP, ES, PSO, ACO, DE, Computational Biology, EC on video game platforms and mobile devices. Papers that discuss novel implementations and the practicalities of writing software for these hardware platforms are especially welcome.

Papers should be submitted by 7 April, 2011 in PDF format via email to: cigpu@gpgpgpu.com and contain the subject “GECCO Workshop”

The deadline for submissions to “GPU’s in Databases” GID2011 workshop has been extended to April 12th, 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. The workshop topics include, but are not limited to: Read the rest of this entry »

The 4th workshop on UnConventional High Performance Computing 2011 (UCHPC 2011), August 29th, 2011, Bordeaux, France, will be held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2011.  This workshop is organized by Anders Hast, Josef Weidendorfer and Jan-Philipp Weiss.

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. Thus, UCHPC tries to capture solutions for HPC which are unconventional today but perhaps conventional tomorrow. For example, the computing power of platforms for games recently raised rapidly. This motivated the use of GPUs for computing (GPGPU), or even building computational grids from game consoles. The recent trend of integrating GPUs on processor chips seem to be very beneficial for use of both parts for HPC. Other examples for “unconventional” hardware are embedded, low-power processors, upcoming many-core architectures, FPGAs or DSPs. Thus, interesting devices for research in unconventional HPC are not only standard server or desktop systems, but also relative cheap devices due to being mass market products, such as smartphones, netbooks, tablets and small NAS servers. For example, smartphones seem to become more performance hungry every day. Only imagination sets the limit for use.

The full call for papers including detailed submission instructions is available at http://www.lrr.in.tum.de/~weidendo/uchpc11.

We are pleased to announce High-Performance Graphics 2011. 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 massively parallel hardware, novel programming models, efficient graphics algorithms, and innovative applications.

The conference is co-located with ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 (Aug. 5-7) in Vancouver, Canada.  More information including the full call for papers with deadlines and submission instructions, is available at http://www.highperformancegraphics.org.

Heterogeneous computing is moving into the mainstream, and a broader range of applications are already on the way. As the provider of world-class CPUs, GPUs, and APUs, AMD offers unique insight into these technologies and how they interoperate. We’ve been working with industry and academia partners to help advance real-world use of these technologies, and to understand the opportunities that lie ahead. It’s time to share what we’ve learned so far.

With tutorials, hands-on labs, and sessions that span a range of topics from HPC to multimedia, you’ll have the opportunity to expand your view of what heterogeneous computing currently offers and where it is going. You’ll hear from industry innovators and academic pioneers who are exploring different ways of approaching problems, and utilizing new paradigms in computing to help identify solutions. You’ll meet AMD experts with deep knowledge of hardware architectures and the software techniques that best leverage those platforms. And you’ll connect with other software professionals who share your passion for the future of technology.

Learn more at developer.amd.com/afds.

The First International Workshop on Accelerators Architectures for the Masses (WACy 2011) will be held in conjunction with 25th Int’l. Conference on Supercomputing (ICS 2011), on June 4th 2011. The submission of short papers (approximately ~6 pages) is encouraged. This workshop is organized by Arrvindh Shriraman and Tor Aamodt, the submission deadline is April 15th 11:59pm PST. More information is available at http://wacy.cs.sfu.ca.

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The call for Submissions for GPU Technology Conference 2011 (GTC), October 11-14, is now open.  You can find more details and instructions for submitting here.

Expanding the already comprehensive breadth of topics covered at GTC 2010, the GTC Content Committee has added new topic areas for 2011. Below is a partial list; see the GTC website for full details:

• Application Design & Porting Techniques
• Bioinformatics
• Climate & Weather Modeling
• Cluster Management
• Computational Structural Mechanics
• Parallel Programming Languages
• Supercomputing

GTC is also looking for posters that describe novel or interesting research topics in parallel computing, visual computing, and applications of GPUs, with a particular interest in submissions describing GPU computing and CUDA applications that solve diverse problems in scientific and engineering domains. Read the rest of this entry »

Proceedings from the 2nd International Workshop on High Performance and Hardware-Aware Computing (HIPHAC 2011) are now available from KIT Scientific Publishing. Individual copies can be ordered here, and the electronic proceedings are available free of charge.