Papers are solicited for the 2011 Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing. Presentations from technology developers and the academic user community are invited on the following topics:

• novel accelerator processors, systems, and architectures
• integration of accelerators with high-performance computing systems
• programming models for accelerator-based computing
• languages and compilers for accelerator-based computing
• run-time environments, profiling and debugging tools for accelerator-based computing
• scientific and engineering applications that use application accelerators

In addition to the general session, submissions are invited for the following domain-specific topics:

• Computational chemistry on accelerators (Chair: TBD)
• Lattice QCD (Chair: Steven Gottlieb, Indiana University, Bloomington)
• Weather and climate modeling (Chair: John Michalakes, National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
• Bioinformatics (Chair: TBD)

Submissions are due May 6, 2011, and more information can be found at the symposium website www.saahpc.org.

Introduction

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. High Performance Graphics was founded in 2009 to synthesize and expand on two important and well-respected conferences in computer graphics:

• Graphics Hardware: an annual conference focusing on graphics hardware, architecture, and systems since 1986; and
• Interactive Ray Tracing: an innovative symposium begun in 2006 focusing on the emerging field of interactive ray tracing and global illumination techniques.

By combining and expanding these two communities, we bring to authors and attendees the best of both fields and a conference covering a broad range of interactive 3D graphics systems and algorithm research.

Conference Info

Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics (pending)
The program features three days of paper and industry presentations, with ample time for discussions during breaks, lunches, and the conference banquet.
The conference, which will take place on August 5—7, is co-located with ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver, Canada.
The conference website is located at http://www.highperformancegraphics.org/

Papers Track

We invite original and innovative performance-oriented contributions from all areas of graphics, including hardware architectures, rendering, physics, animation, AI, simulation, and data structures, with topics including (but not limited to): Read the rest of this entry »

All talks from the 2010 GPU Technology Conference (as well as archived presentations from GTC 2009) are now available from NVIDIA.

For those who missed this year’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) , and those who attended, but had a hard time choosing between all the concurrent sessions, NVIDIA has publicly released streamed recordings, video and slides from most  GTC sessions.

There is content available for all types of programmers and developers. Those just getting started programming GPUs may want to take a look at the pre-conference tutorials, which provide an in-depth look at topics such as CUDA C, OpenCL, OpenGL and Parallel Nsight.

Researchers in industry academia are invited to submit their latest research results to the “Reconfigurable and GPU Computing” track at the 9th ACS/IEEE (pending approval) International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2011). The conference website is http://www.aiccsa.org. Deadline for submission is Nov. 8, 2010.

Recofigurable & GPGPU topics include:

• Algorithms and mathematical applications
• Languages and system software
• Hardware implementation and supporting technologies
• Theoretical models and performance estimation
• Simulation environments and prototyping
• Case studies and comparisons of real-life technologies
• Run time reconfiguration
• Energy efficiency
• Architectural issues and tradeoffs
• Hybrid GPU/reconfigurable systems
• Hardware accelerators

The Second International Workshop on New Frontiers in High-performance and Hardware-aware Computing (HipHaC’11) is to be held in conjunction with the 17th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-17), colocated with 16th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2011), February 13, 2011, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

This workshop aims at combining new aspects of parallel, heterogeneous, and reconfigurable microprocessor technologies with concepts of high-performance computing and, particularly, numerical solution methods. Topics of interest for workshop submissions include (but are not limited to): Read the rest of this entry »

Two leading computing visionaries will speak at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in September. Prof. Klaus Schulten, renowned computational biologist from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will deliver a keynote highlighting discoveries made using the ‘computational microscope.’ Prof. Sebastian Thrun, robotics pioneer at Stanford University and distinguished engineer at Google, will speak on advances in GPU computing in computer vision and robotics. Registration is still open at www.nvidia.com/gtc.

In response to the large number of requests from the community, the organizing committee of HiBi 2010 extend the deadline for paper and abstract submission from Monday June 21 to Thursday July 1, 2010.

The HiBi workshop establishes a forum to link researchers in the areas of parallel computing and computational systems biology. One of the main limitations in managing models of biological systems comes from the fundamental difference between the high parallelism evident in biochemical reactions and the sequential environments employed for the analysis of these reactions. Such limitations affect all varieties of continuous, deterministic, discrete and stochastic models; undermining the applicability of simulation techniques and analysis of biological models. The goal of HiBi is therefore to bring together researchers in the fields of high performance 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.

The GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2010) will be held Sept. 20-23, 2010 in San Jose, Calif. Developers, researchers, scientists and entrepreneurs are invited to submit proposals on GPU-related topics. See www.nvidia.com/gtc.

GPU Developers Summit: Session Topics deadline: June 1, 2010
Emerging Companies Summit: “CEO on Stage” Nominations deadline: August 1, 2010
NVIDIA Research Summit: Posters deadline: August 15, 2010

To submit a proposal, you will be asked to set up a GTC 2010 account so you can track the status of your submission.

Submission guidelines: www.nvidia.com/object/call_for_submissions.html
Join GTC 2010 mailing list: www.nvidia.com/object/email_updates.html

This year’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2010) will take place on Monday, Sept. 20 to Thursday, Sept. 23 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California.

Building on last year’s inaugural conference, GTC 2010 will feature an even broader and deeper selection of technical sessions, interactive tutorials, technology previews, and industry and academic presentations.

Three concurrent GPU-focused summits will occur under one roof:

• Emerging Companies Summit: A showcase for innovative startups to demonstrate products and network with VC’s and other investors.
• GPU Developers Summit: Sessions, tutorials, and presentations for developers, engineers, and scientists.
• NVIDIA Research Summit: A unique opportunity for students, professors, and researchers to present their findings and collaborate.

For more information:

• Join the GTC 2010 mailing list for updates.
• See GTC Call for Submissions to learn about submitting content.
• To inquire about being a sponsor or exhibitor, visit GTC Sponsors/Exhibitors.

The 3rd International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, META’10, features a special session on Metaheuristics on graphics hardware, organized by Geir Hasle and Trond Runar Hagen. It focuses on the utilization of modern commodity computer architectures, in particular Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), to enhance the performance of metaheuristics. A broad spectrum of papers is invited, ranging from case studies focused on specific problems and applications to theoretical aspects and frameworks.

The conference will take place October 28-30, 2010, on Djerba Island, Tunisia. More information is available at the conference web page.