Fifth KAUST-NVIDIA Workshop on Accelerating Scientific Applications Using GPUs

Organizers

Saber Feki	Georgios Markomanolis
Workshop Chair	Hackathon Chair

Description

The KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory is co-organizing with NVIDIA, a leader in accelerated computing and artificial intelligence, a full-day workshop on accelerating scientific applications using GPUs on Tuesday, February 20th, 2018 in the auditorium between buildings 4 and 5. The workshop will be followed by a 2-day GPU Hackathon in which selected teams of developers will be guided by OpenACC and CUDA mentors from NVIDIA and KAUST to port and accelerate their domain science application to GPU accelerators on the IBEX Cluster.

We are looking forward to seeing you there.

Saber Feki, Workshop Chair
Georgios Markomanolis, Hackathon Chair

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Speakers

Keynotes speakers:

Timothy Lanfear manages the European solution architecture and engineering team in NVIDIA’s Professional Solutions Group. He has twenty years’ experience in HPC, starting as a computational scientist in British Aerospace’s corporate research centre, and then moving to technical pre-­‐sales roles with Hitachi, ClearSpeed, and most recently NVIDIA. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering and a PhD for research in the field of graph theory, both from Imperial College London. He is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Brent Leback is the Service and Support Manager for PGI. He has worked in various positions over the last 31 years in HPC customer support, math library development, applications engineering and consulting at QTC, Axian, PGI, STMicroelectronics, and NVIDIA.

Plenary speakers:

The list of speakers and their bio can be downloaded here!

Agenda

Detailed agenda of the event can be found here.

Venue

All lectures will take place in the auditorium between buildings 4 and 5 (workshop square).

The workshop location is a 5 min walk from the KAUST Inn (red square) and the campus diner (orange square) for the regular lunch is 5 min away from the workshop location.

Registration

To register for the event, please click here

Materials

The Workshop materials will be posted soon after the workshop.

Survey

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Hack-a-Thon

The event will be followed up by a two-days GPU hack-a-thon in which selected teams of developers will be guided by OpenACC and CUDA mentors from NVIDIA and KAUST to port and accelerate their domain science application to GPU accelerators.

Space will be limited to 5-6 teams. Please click here to submit your hack-a-thon proposal.

Hack-a-thon web page

Material:

Contact

Please contact us at training@hpc.kaust.edu.sa if you need further information.