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.

Agenda:

General Discussions:

6:15-6:30pm What’s new in HPC & GPU Supercomputing

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

Main Program:

6:45-7:45pm Making GPGPU easier with OpenCL C++ and a flexible architecture (Ben Gaster, Ph.D.)

7:45-7:50pm Break

7:50-8:30pm HAC: GPGPU Video Processing HAC (Hugo Latapie, CTO, NDS Americas)

Refreshments courtesy of NDS Americas.

Main Talk: Making GPGPU easier with OpenCL C++ and a flexible architecture

Abstract: In this talk we introduce the GPU Next Architecture from AMD that is designed with compute in mind, bring a more flexible and capable programming model. Furthering the the theme of making GPGPU programming easier we introduce OpenCL C++, a C++11 based programming model, build on top of OpenCL designed to addressing some of today's difficulties with programming heterogeneous architectures.

Bio: Dr. Benedict R. Gaster is a software architect working on programming models for next-generation heterogeneous processors, particularly examining high-level abstractions for parallel programming on the emerging class of processors that contain both CPUs and accelerators such as GPUs. He has contributed extensively to the OpenCL’s design and has represented AMD at the Khronos Group open standard consortium. He has a Ph.D. in computer science for his work on type systems for extensible records and variants.

HAC (HPC and GPU Computing Acceleration Challenge)

Topic: GPGPU Video Processing HAC

Bio: Hugo Latapie is chief technology officer at NDS Americas. He has over 20 years’ experience designing and implementing mission critical systems for the defense, medical, and telecommunications industries. His research interests include radar data imaging systems, telemetry systems, large-scale distributed systems, databases, cryptography, wearable computing, ubiquitous computing, digital television, and high performance computing. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM and can be contacted at hlatapie_at_nds.com.

Location:

Open Space;
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

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