by Mahesha Pandit
“The Multicore Challenge II - Programming The multicore” was held on 5th September 2011 at Bristol. Eight speakers explored different dimensions of the multicore challenge and opportunities it brings about.
The presentation slides are available here. (You may have to join the Scalable Computing Group to access them.)

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ISC 2011 paper titled “Experiments with the Fresh Breeze Tree-Based Memory Model” authored by Jack Dennis (MIT), Guang R. Gao, and Xiaoxuan Meng (Univ. of Delaware), won the prestigious Gauss Award.
Here is the abstract:
The Fresh Breeze memory model and system architecture is proposed as an approach to achieving significant improvements by supporting fine-grain management [...]

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On April 14 and 15, the Keeneland project and the Georgia Tech NVIDIA CUDA Center of Excellence will present a two day tutorial on GPU heterogeneous processing for computational science.
Tutorial topics will include
Architectural overview and motivation
Introduction to CUDA
Introduction to OpenCL
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Pebble Bay will discuss the successful development of BSPs, drivers and other software for these multicore architectures at “Multicore Processors - Embedded Software Network” on Tuesday 5th April at ARM near Cambridge.

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Speaker: Stefan Holdermans (Software Development Engineer, Vector Fabrics)
Date/Time: Wednesday (October 20, 2010) 12:30pm — 1:30pm
Location (room): Show Floor (EmbeddeLive Conference)
Track: Sponsored Session/Seminar
Formats: 60-Minute Sponsored Session
Presentation Abstract
One of the barriers slowing an enthusiastic transition to embedded multicore is the difficulty of parallelizing your functionality. Especially with the C language, subtle dependencies, often due [...]

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The epicenter of the GPU computing revolution has shifted this week to the San Jose Convention Center. It’s serving as home of this year’s GPU Technology Conference, where several thousand attendees are learning more about what researchers are doing on the GPU front from medical to video animation. In this video wrap-up from day one, [...]

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linux.conf.au is a conference for free and open source software. In 2011 lca is going to be held in Brisbane, from the 24th - 29th January. The conference includes a miniconf on Multicore and Parallel Computing, organized by Nicolás Erdödy. The miniconf is inviting for Papers, Proposals, Presentations, Panels. The deadline for submissions is October [...]

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Attend this webinar to understand-
- Whether you really need HPC
- What data or compute intensive problems can HPC solve for you
- How can contemporary HPC offer an optimal solution
- How companies are realizing huge RoI benefits
- How can you best leverage HPC best practices for your business
Where: Your Desktop
When: Feb 26th, 2010 @ 10:00 am [...]

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The PADTAD 2010 workshop is a two-day event at ISSTA 2010, focusing on techniques and systems that aid in the testing, analysis, and debugging of multi-threaded, parallel and distributed applications and systems. The workshop has a practical and applied emphasis on systems that have been implemented in (at least) prototype form, but also welcomes submissions [...]

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QCon London 2010 will be held between March 10 and 12th. On March 12th, technology leaders such as Joe Armstrong (Erlang), Simon Marlow (Haskell), Ralph Johnson, Co-author of Design Patterns, discuss various topics of concurrent programming. Here is an abstract of the event hosted by Ulf Wiger.
“By now “The free lunch” ended more than five [...]

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ParaPLoP 2010, a PLoP-style workshop on parallel programming patterns, will be March 30 - April 1 in Carefree, AZ. You are invited to submit a paper. Papers should describe one or more patterns, outline a pattern language, analyze previously published patterns, describe case studies of using patterns to develop parallel software, or present experience mining [...]

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The Sun HPC Consortium Portland was held in conjunction with SC09 in Portland, Oregon. The Sun High Performance Computing Consortium (SHPCC) is an independent, volunteer-organized, international group of member organizations that own or use Sun computer systems with emphasis on high-performance, technical computing, and visualization.
SHPCC’s mission is to provide the high performance computing community with [...]

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December 2nd,2009
Location: Zurich
In this half day seminar you will learn strategies and techniques for speeding up your Matlab and Simulink applications. This will include tips on how to optimize the performance of your Matlab code or your Simulink models and it will show how to use Matlab tools to take advantage of multicore machines and [...]

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Accellera Participates in International SoC Conference Panel on Improving Design Productivity and IP Quality Through the Effective Use of Standards for Complex Multicore SoCs. Panelists from Accellera, the electronics industry organization focused on Electronic Design Automation (EDA) standards, and The SPIRIT Consortium will present on “Improving Design Productivity and IP Quality through the Effective Use [...]

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Rambus Presentation
Tuesday, September 22, 11:15 a.m. PDT
“Memory Architectures for Multi-core Computing in Next-generation PCs and Smartphones”
Presented by Craig Hampel, Rambus Fellow
Moscone Center West, Room 2005
Mr. Hampel will address memory architecture optimizations that can support the many threads and workloads handled by multi-core processors in next-generation PCs and Smartphones. As part of his talk, Mr. Hampel [...]

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Special Issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing on “Data Intensive Computing” invites original unpublished research articles that describe recent advances and efforts in the design and development of data intensive computing, functionalities and capabilities that will benefit many applications.
Important Dates
Paper Submission : January 15, 2010
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection : May 31, 2010
Final Version of [...]

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Sun offers a virtual conference dedicated to the best in high performance computing. The online event will give you an opportunity to hear from compute and HPC guru Andy Bechtolsheim and industry experts discussing the trends and issues facing the computational ecosystem.
There will also be industry and technology exhibits offering virtual opportunities to discuss technologies, [...]

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The inaugural Linley Tech Processor Conference will be held on September 16 and 17 in San Jose. This two-day event will deliver in-depth information from industry leaders on the newest chips and technologies used in networking and communications applications. There are presentations from top technologists addressing various types of processor architecture and design, IP, and [...]

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Intel Developer Forum (IDF) will be held from September 22nd to 24th in San Francisco. The event offers an opportunity to hear major announcements and get critical job training. Attendees can ask questions and get answers from Intel Fellows and top engineers who come equipped with extensive knowledge on next generation processor technologies.
Here are some [...]

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The Open Source, Multicore and Parallel Computing Miniconf offers a space to learn and discuss about Open Source contributions (existent or in process) to the problem of developing Parallel Software. It aims to launch a conversation on how the OSS Community, Education Sector, Scientists and Researchers, Developers and Industry are looking at this “new” scenario.
This [...]

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