IBERGRID’2010 And the Summer School in E-Science with Many-Core CPU/GPU Processors in Braga, this May and June

The UT Austin|Portugal Program is promoting international events in Portugal that play a role in the development of imaging technologies to support the advance of science and engineering fields. These are crucial in current e-Science developments, which in most cases, require innovative

ways to grasp the results of the simulation of computer models. Scientific visualization events will be active in Portugal this May and June with the support of the

Advanced Computing program: the IBERGRID’2010 conference and the Summer School in e-Science with Many-Core CPU/GPU Processors.

The IBERGRID’2010 (http://www.ibergrid.eu/2010/) is the 4th edition of a series of Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conferences that started in 2007 under the framework of the bilateral agreement for Science and Technology signed between Portugal and Spain. IBERGRID’2010 will take place in Braga May 24th 2010 and aims to leverage the construction of a common Iberian Grid Infrastructure and to foster cooperation in the fields of grid computing and supercomputing. The organization of the IBERGRID event includes an International Conference with several parallel Thematic Sessions (May 24th-27th), an HPC Workshop (May 27th afternoon), and a 1-day Hands-on Tutorial (May 28th), for researchers in computational science and engineering.

This tutorial, with hands-on sessions, addresses issues related to access different types of remote HPC facilities, from thin-node-distributed-memory clusters (such as Ranger as TACC), to fat-node-SMP clusters (Finis Terrae at CESGA, Galicia, with up to 1TB of shared RAM) and to CPU_GPU clusters. This latter topic is covered by Paul Navratil from UT Austin, who will talk about CUDA and will access and use the Longhorn cluster at TACC, the largest visualization and data analysis GPU-cluster system in the world.

The Summer School in e-Science with Many-Core CPU/ GPU Processors (http://advcomp.di.uminho.pt/uta/mcss2010/) is planned for the 3rd week of June, also in Braga, and is the first course in Europe given by two NVidia senior members (David Kirk and Michael Garland) and a faculty from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Wen-mei W. Hwu).

David Kirk is an NVIDIA Fellow and served from 1997 to 2009 as NVIDIA’s chief scientist, a role in which he led the development of graphics technology for today’s most popular consumer entertainment platforms. Wen-mei W. Hwu is the Walter J. (“Jerry”) Sanders III-Advanced Micro Devices Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Michael Garland is currently a research scientist with NVIDIA Research and an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign.

The Summer School will also have other experts in Graphics Computing and from other Scientific Computing areas, to present their views and experiences in using CUDA in the development of their libraries or scientific applications.

For more information on how to attend, please visit the following websites: http://www.ibergrid.eu/2010/, for IBERGRID’2010 and http://advcomp.di.uminho.pt/uta/mcss2010/, for The Summer School.