The proceedings of the workshop “General-Purpose GPU Computing: Practice And Experience” held at SuperComputing 2006 are now posted. The proceedings include PDFs of the workshop presentations and posters. (http://www.gpgpu.org/sc2006/workshop/)

Please join us next week in Tampa, Florida at Supercomputing 2006 for a full-day GPGPU Tutorial on Sunday, November 12 2006. This is the continuation of a series of well-regarded courses presented at the SIGGRAPH and IEEE Visualization conferences. The course at SC06 has been updated for the Supercomputing audience with the latest results and techniques. Then, on Monday November 13, plan to attend the SC06 Workshop, “General-Purpose GPU Computing: Practice and Experience”. This workshop features invited speakers and poster presenters who provide insights into current GPGPU practice and experience, and chart future directions in heterogeneous and homogeneous multi-core processor architectures and data-parallel processor architectures such as GPUs.

SC’06 is proud to announce the “General-Purpose GPU Computing: Practice and Experience” workshop. This workshop features invited speakers and poster presenters who provide insights into current GPGPU practice and experience, and chart future directions in heterogeneous and homogeneous multi-core processor architectures and data-parallel processor architectures such as GPUs. The topics addressed by the speakers range from current GPGPU practice and experience to future issues and research areas in parallel computing currently being driven by GPGPU innovations and lessons learned, such as the IBM Cell Broadband Engine and Sun Microsystem’s Niagara/Sun4v processor. Poster presentations are solicited in, but not strictly limited to, the following
areas:

• Application acceleration
• GPGPU/multi-core/parallel coprocessor integration: toolkits, implementation techniques (e.g., iterative refinement, numerical techniques), domain-specific languages
• GPGPU implementation issues: performance issues and challenges, cooperative GPU/CPU algorithms and solutions, numerical analysis issues, HPC issues
• Cluster-based GPGPU computing and Grid integration

Please submit prospective poster abstracts in PDF or PostScript format to the workshop chair for consideration and review. Poster abstract submission deadline: No later than October 1st. (For more information see http://www.gpgpu.org/sc2006/workshop/)

Abstracts, citations and links to author homepages of eight papers on GPGPU presented at the ICCS conference, Reading, UK, May 2006, are available. Topics include genome sequencing, GPGPU languages, database operations, computational fluid dynamics, computer vision, computational geometry and neural networks. (http://www.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de/~goeddeke/iccs/papers.html)

This workshop, to be held May 23-24 2006 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, will address some recent developments on new commodity architectures, including GPUs, multi-core CPUs, the Cell processor, PPU and other emerging commodity architectures. Some of the issues to be examined in the workshop include the software challenges that arise in programming these new commodity architectures and their impact on different applications and high-performance computing. The workshop will bring together leading researchers and designers from academia, research labs, industrial organizations and federal agencies. A call for posters is now online. (EDGE Workshop 2006)

A special workshop dedicated to “GPGPU: Methods, algorithms and applications” will be hosted in conjunction with the 6th International Conference On Computational Science (ICCS 2006). The primary goal of this session is to present the GPU as a powerful parallel processor. Contributions presenting novel, original work in all areas of GPGPU, e.g. from hardware abstractions to specific applications, are cordially invited. For more information, please refer to the official workshop web page.

This workshop will first focus on an entry-level GPGPU introduction by Robert Strzodka, followed by a discussion of hardware-efficient PDE solvers with applications in Image Processing. After a brief review of the current state-of-the-art of FEM codes on the CPU side, algorithmic design patterns for efficient GPU implementations will be experimentally evaluated. (Note: talks will be given in German.) http://www.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de/~goeddeke/workshop/index.html

Given the increasing power and usage of commodity GPUs, many researchers are using them for general-purpose computation. The ACM Workshop on General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Processors (GP²), to be held the Saturday and Sunday before SIGGRAPH 2004 at one of the SIGGRAPH hotels, will explore current issues in general-purpose computing using graphics hardware. These issues include:

• Do GPUs have the potential of being a useful co-processor for a wide variety of applications?
  What are their algorithmic and architectural niches and can these be broadened?
• What are the major issues in terms of programmability, language and compiler support and software environments for GPUs?
• What are some of the future technology trends that can lead to more widespread use of GPUs?

This workshop will bring together leading researchers and practitioners from academia, research labs and industry working in computer graphics, scientific computation, high performance computing,
omputer architecture and related areas. The program will consist of invited talks, panels and poster presentations. (ACM GP² Workshop. Call for Posters.)