SDSC to Host Data-Intensive Discovery Conference
As part of it’s preparations to deploy the data-intensive Gordon supercomputer in mid-2011, SDSC will host the Grand Challenges in Data-Intensive Discovery conference on October 26-28, 2010 at the UC San Diego campus.
We believe this conference will greatly benefit those doing research in data-intensive fields,” said Michael Norman, interim director of SDSC. “Gordon, and future systems like it, will open new opportunities across numerous areas of research, and it is important that such resources are utilized to their utmost capabilities.”
The conference already has an impressive lineup of speakers and registration is now open. Contributed talk and poster abstract submission are due September 16, 2010.
New Call for Papers: Society of HPC Professionals
The Society of High Performance Computing Professionals has issued a new Call for Papers for its Annual Technical Meeting on November 3, 2010 in Houston, Texas. The SHPCP promotes HPC technical competence, knowledge dissemination and user collaboration. Their updated announcement calls for outstanding submissions along the following HPC tracks:
- Emerging technologies and innovative solutions
- Performance testing, monitoring and benchmarking tools
Proposals are due September 30, 2010. For details, check out their updated announcement.
Editor’s Note: I think it is interesting that Oracle Oil & Gas is sponsoring this HPC conference, especially since they have evidently pulled out of SC10. The company still has HPC topics at Oracle Open World and the HPC User Forum, …
HPC 360 Conference Means Business
There’s an upstart conference on Commercial HPC coming up at the end of the month called HPC 360. Will they be able to attract Joe Businessman to come and hear about the benefits of high performance computing? Maybe, considering that they are throwing in tickets for a Big Ten tailgate party.
So that raises a bigger question about whether Commercial HPC even exists. In my mind, HPC is a never-ending journey towards infinite performance. And on this Odyssey, Commercial HPC has long been the song of the sirens for IT vendors.
The song goes something like this; sure the supercomputing market of scientists and researchers is small in the world of IT, but invest in R&D and innovate the …
Launching a New Product at SC10? Get Featured in SCW Magazine
Scientific Computing World magazine will feature a preview round-up of new products being launched at SC10 in New Orleans this November. If you are exhibiting and would like to be included in SCW’s preview, please send them a 150-word summary of what you will be featuring/demonstrating plus an image (min 300dpi, approx 5 x 5cm, jpg or tif, no logos please), plus a web address.
Submissions due: September 10, 2010
Send submissions to: editor.scw@europascience.com
October 11 Workshop at SARA on IDC’s Recommended Supercomputing Strategy for Europe
I ran an announcement on this a couple days ago with the wrong dates. I’ve updated that post, but I wanted to re-run the post for those of you that may have marked your calendars already and won’t see the correction.
IDC invites members of the European HPC community and other interested parties to a special workshop on IDC’s proposed supercomputing strategy for Europe through the year 2020. The workshop will take place on October 11, 2010, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, at the Dutch National Supercomputer Centre (SARA) in Amsterdam (sign-in and refreshments from 8:00 a.m.). IDC and European Commission officials will discuss the recommended strategy and invite questions. Under contract from the EC, IDC conducted extensive field research within the European HPC community
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Parallel Nsight webinars from NVIDIA
News of some NVIDIA training events you may be interested in scheduling room for on your calendar
Overview of Parallel Nsight 1.0 for Visual Studio
August 20th, 9am https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/832771459
August 23rd, 8pm https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/935381498Debugging Massively Parallel Applications with Parallel Nsight 1.0 and Microsoft Visual Studio
August 25th, 9:30am https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/320801507
August 30th, 8pm https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/431568810Analyzing and Optimizing Massively Parallel Applications with Parallel Nsight 1.0 and Microsoft Visual Studio
Sept 1st, 9:30am https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/809022811
Sept 6th, 8pm https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/943671050Debugging and Analyzing Graphics Applications with NVIDIA Parallel Nsight 1.0 and Microsoft Visual Studio
Sept 8th, 9:30am https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/436432658
Sept 13th, 8pm https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/827311026
DirectCompute for GPU Computing – an Introduction by Microsoft
Sept 9th, 9am https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/928742538
Times are Pacific; recordings of previous webinars at …
October 11 workshop at SARA on IDC’s recommended supercomputing strategy for Europe [CORRECTED]
Heard over the email transom yesterday about this workshop in Europe which, if I was the traveling type, I would definitely make time to attend.
IDC invites members of the European HPC community and other interested parties to a special workshop on IDC’s proposed supercomputing strategy for Europe through the year 2020. The workshop will take place on October 11, 2010 [corrected from October 7], from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, at the Dutch National Supercomputer Centre (SARA) in Amsterdam (sign-in and refreshments from 8:00 a.m.). IDC and European Commission officials will discuss the recommended strategy and invite questions. Under contract from the EC, IDC conducted extensive field research within the European HPC community for an Interim Report and then prepared a Final Report with the
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September HPC User Forum Will Probe New/Emerging HPC Markets
From IDC’s Steve Conway comes a reminder to register for the next HPC User Forum, September 13-15 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Seattle (www.hpcuserforum.com). There will be major sessions on new and emerging HPC markets, including cloud computing technical and business models, data-intensive computing for areas ranging from graph analysis to business analytics, and outreach to SMEs.
Other sessions will report the latest developments in heterogeneous multicore/manycore and GPGPU computing, plans for achieving sustained exascale performance, future aerospace directions, and a status report on HPC market financials and forecast from IDC.
For more information or to register, go to www.hpcuserforum.com or email questions hpc@idc.com.
International Green Computing Conference underway
Dr. Dobb’s has news of the first International Green Computing Conference underway this week in Chicago. The conference is co-sponsored by the IEEE and Lennart Johnsson is keynoting
“Supercomputing involves exceptionally powerful computers traditionally used for solving fundamental physics, chemistry and large-scale engineering problems,” Johnsson said. “Advanced computing platforms and applications yield safer, better-performing and more fuel-efficient cars and planes and facilitate the development and testing of life-saving medicines. They also provide the opportunity to push the boundaries of science to discover properties of materials and fluids that can lead to new products, in turn leading to new industries, new treatments for diseases and improved conditions for humanity as a whole.” The conference, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, addresses key topics related to
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American-Chinese Cyberinfrastructure and E-Science Workshop
NCSA hosted the American-Chinese Cyberinfrastructure and E-Science Workshop last week in Illinois. According to the workshop website
The American-Chinese Cyberinfrastructure and E-Science workShop (ACCESS) 2010 (http://access10.cnic.cn/) is the second of a series of workshops that aim to bring together researchers, educators, users, and practitioners in the area of cyberinfrastructure and e-Science in China and the United States of America (USA), and to foster international collaboration and cooperation in this area between the two countries. ACCESS is organized by the Computer Network Information Center (CNIC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Center of Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). CNIC is the largest and most comprehensive cyberinfrastructure and e-Science center in
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