HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Silicon Valley

Exchange ideas, meet experts, share code, lectures ... 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:

6:15-6:25pm What's New in HPC & GPU Supercomputing

6:25-6:45pm Member self-intros: 30 seconds for each member

(with refreshments sponsored by Microsoft Corporation)

Topics:

6:45-7:45pm Programming with "Thrust", A Rapid Development Toolkit for GPU (Andrew Sheppard, Initiator of the HPC & GPU Supercomputing Groups)

7:45-7:55pm Break/Discussions

7:55-8:15pm Parallel Management Patterns (Minesh B. Amin)

8:15-8:30pm Book Reviews: GPU Computing Gems

Guests:

Andrew Sheppard is a financial consultant with extensive experience in quantitative financial analysis, trading-desk software development, and technical management. Most recently, from 2006 to 2010, Andrew worked at a New York multi-strategy hedge fund as Chief Quant and CTO. He also was the manager of an innovative software company based in London that was owned by the hedge fund but run independently. For more than two years, Andrew has been an active developer of GPU (CUDA) massively parallel software in C/C++ for real-time financial trading and risk. Andrew is the author of two forthcoming books on GPU from O'Reilly, "GPUs in the Cloud" and "Programming GPUs", both out in 2011.

Minesh B. Amin is the Founder and CEO of MBA Sciences - the company behind SPM.Python, a scalable parallel version of the popular (serial) Python language; a solution showcased as a disruptive technology at the Supercomputing Conference 2011. Previously, while at Synopsys, Inc, he helped architect, prototype, implement and deploy what are still (in 2011) one-of-their-kind, successful commercial parallel capabilities (TetraMAX TenX, Primetime DMSA), and enhancements for electronic design automation tools (DFT Compiler, Design Compiler, Formality). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota.

Book Reviews by: Morgan Conrad, Ankit Gupta, John Spurling

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