HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Silicon Valley

Come for Table discussions, Member Self-Intro, What's New, Application Showcase, and Advanced Application Development Techniques! Exchange ideas, meet experts, share code... all HPC & GPU, all practical, all cutting-edge.

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1. Take Moffett Blvd exit on Hwy 101; on Moffett Blvd, head North.

2. Stop at check point (for NASA Ames Research Park)

• Show Government Issued ID: e.g. Driver's License
• Tell the Guard you are going to Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley

3. Park at the location labeled as "P" in the map below

• We are in Building 23

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Agenda:

General Discussions:

6:15-6:45pm Table discussions (see topics here (https://www.meetup.com/HPC-GPU-Supercomputing-Group-of-Silicon-Valley/pages/Table_Topics_for_April_4th_Meetup/))

6:45-7:10pm Member self-intros: 30 seconds for each member

7:10-7:30pm What’s new in HPC & GPU Supercomputing

(with refreshments sponsored by Microsoft Corporation)

Short Topics:

7:30-7:45pm Application Showcase: Speech Recognition on GPUs with CUDA (Jike Chong)

7:45-8:00pm Application Showcase: Database Driven OpenCL Programming (Tim Child)

8:00-8:30pm Advanced Application Development Techniques: Getting the Most Out of the Visual Profiler (Paulius Micikevicius)

Speakers:

Jike Chong is the organizer of the HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Silicon Valley. He consults in the parallel computing space with Parasians, Parallel Computing Artisans. Jike is also an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, where he is establishing a research and teaching center for parallel computing. He received a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from University of California, Berkeley.

Tim Child is the CEO of a Silicon Valley start-up that is focusing on using GPU accelerated databases for rich content management systems. He previously held Vice President of Engineering positions at Oracle Corporation, Informix Inc. and BEA Systems Inc.

Paulius Micikevicius is a Developer Technology Engineer at NVIDIA with a focus on parallel computing. Prior to joining NVIDIA, he was an assistant professor of Computer Science at Armstrong Atlantic State University as well as a research associate at the Media Convergence Laboratory at UCF. Paulius holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida and a B.S. in Computer Science from Midwestern State University.

Location:

Room 109/110;
Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley;
NASA Research Park Bldg 23;
Mountain View, CA 94043;

Directions (http://www.cmu.edu/silicon-valley/about-us/directions.html) to Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley;

Google Map (http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?gl=us&hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=37.410941,-122.063169&spn=0.019191,0.048923&t=h&z=15&msid=215438781255871976989.00049cacf6f0e5596e5cc) showing parking, check point, and building entrance;

NOTE: You will need a government issued ID (e.g. Driver's License) to enter NASA Research Park