Partnering with NVIDIA and Microsoft, this four day CUDA training course is designed for Researchers and Programmers in the life science industries who are looking to develop comprehensive skills in writing and optimizing applications that fully leverage the many-core processing capabilities of the GPU. It is held in Boston, MA, on June 4-7, 2012. This course will have a life science theme. Commonly used algorithms such as Monte Carlo methods, FFT and filtering will be used and profiled in examples. The case study on day 4 focuses on the efficient implementation of a molecular dynamics simulation. More information: http://www.acceleware.com/jun4boston

Partnering with NVIDIA, this four day course (May 8-11, 2012) is designed for Programmers who are looking to develop comprehensive skills in writing and optimizing applications that fully leverage the multi-core processing capabilities of the GPU.

Delivered by Acceleware Developers, who provide real world experience and examples, the training comprises of classroom lectures and hands-on tutorials. Each student will be supplied with a laptop equipped with NVIDIA GPUs for the duration of the course. Small class sizes maximize learning and ensure a personal educational experience.

More information: http://www.acceleware.com/may8calgary

Developed in partnership with AMD, this four day course is designed for GPU Programmers who are looking to develop comprehensive skills in writing and optimizing applications that fully leverage the multi-core processing capabilities of the GPU.

Delivered by Acceleware’s Developers, who provide real world experience and examples, the training comprises classroom lectures and hands-on tutorials. Each student will be supplied with a laptop equipped with an AMD Fusion APU for the duration of the course. Small class sizes maximize learning and ensure a personal educational experience. Read the rest of this entry »

Partnering with NVIDIA and Microsoft, this four-day CUDA training course is designed for GPU Programmers in the oil-and-gas industry who are looking to develop comprehensive skills in writing and optimizing applications that fully leverage the many-core processing capabilities of the GPU.

Partnering with NVIDIA and Microsoft, this four-day CUDA training course is designed for GPU Programmers who are looking to develop comprehensive skills in writing and optimizing applications that fully leverage the many-core processing capabilities of the GPU.

Partnering with NVIDIA and Microsoft, this four day course is designed for Programmers who are looking to develop comprehensive skills in writing and optimizing applications that fully leverage the multi-core processing capabilities of the GPU.

Delivered by Acceleware’s Developers, who provide real world experience and examples, the training comprises classroom lectures and hands-on tutorials. Each student will be supplied with a laptop equipped with NVIDIA GPUs for the duration of the course. Small class sizes maximize learning and ensure a personal educational experience.

Register before January 13 and receive $250 off your course fee!
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On June 28, 2011 StreamComputing will present a one-day course on OpenCL in Utrecht. The course covers general GPU computing principles and OpenCL specifics in a top-down fashion, including lectures and short lab sessions.  Topics include:

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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 Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI)—”Scientific Computing in the Americas: the challenge of massive parallelism”—was held in Valparaiso, Chile on 3–14 January 2011. The event hosted 14 lecturers and 68 participants, thanks to NSF/DOE funding. Lecture materials are now available publicly: PDFs of the lecture slides on the PASI website, and screencasts (video) via an iTunes U course and on YouTube also).

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.