Agenda

Please note, all times are shown in Central Daylight Time (UTC-5).

Materials from the 2008 course on many-core processors are available for students to review.

Monday, August 10, 2009
8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Registration / Check-in

7:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m.
Wen-Mei Hwu and Nady Obeid, University of Illinois

Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
11:00 a.m.
Lunch
11:50 a.m.
Welcome
Noon
David Kirk, NVIDIA

Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
1:15 p.m.
Break
1:30 p.m.
Wen-Mei Hwu, University of Illinois, and David Kirk, NVIDIA

Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
2:45 p.m.
Break
3:00 p.m.
Multidisciplinary Panel
Justin Haldar, Guochun Shi, Aaron Shinn, and John Stone, University of Illinois

Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
4:30 p.m.
Adjourn
4:30 p.m.
EVL only — Rapid-fire session
The rapid-fire session is designed to help attendees connect with others with similar domain expertise. Each attendee will have up to 2 minutes to share their name, institutions, and a brief description of their research.
5:00 p.m.
University of Michigan only — Reception/Rapid-fire session
The rapid-fire session is designed to help attendees connect with others with similar domain expertise. Each attendee will have up to 2 minutes to share their name, institutions, and a brief description of their research.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
7:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.
Wen-Mei Hwu, University of Illinois, and David Kirk, NVIDIA

Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
9:15 a.m.
Break
9:30 a.m.
Wen-Mei Hwu, University of Illinois, and David Kirk, NVIDIA

Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
11:00 a.m.
Lunch
Noon
Hands-on Lab
    -- Understanding the labs
    -- CUDA lab manual
    -- CUDA lab code
    -- CUDA lab matrix data
    -- CUDA lab solutions
Nady Obeid, Xiao-Long Wu and I-Jui "Ray" Sung, University of Illinois
1:30 p.m.
NCSA only — Tour (optional)
This optional one-hour tour will feature the GPU cluster students are using during the summer school and a trip through the NCSA's machine room. Space is limited, so please sign up for a tour at the check-in desk.

At all other sites, and for those at NCSA not taking the tour, hands-on lab will continue.
2:45 p.m.
Break
3:00 p.m.
Michael Garland, NVIDIA

Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
4:30 p.m.
Adjourn
5:00 p.m.
NCSA only — Reception/Rapid-fire session
The rapid-fire session is designed to help attendees connect with others with similar domain expertise. Each attendee will have up to 2 minutes to share their name, institutions, and a brief description of their research.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
7:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.
Wen-Mei Hwu, University of Illinois, and David Kirk, NVIDIA

Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
9:15 a.m.
Break
9:30 a.m.
Wen-Mei Hwu, University of Illinois, and David Kirk, NVIDIA

Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
11:00 a.m.
Lunch
Noon
Hands-on Lab
    -- Understanding the labs
    -- CUDA lab manual
    -- CUDA lab code
    -- CUDA lab matrix data
    -- CUDA lab solutions
Nady Obeid, Xiao-Long Wu and I-Jui "Ray" Sung, University of Illinois

Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
1:30 p.m.
NCSA only — Tour (optional)
This optional one-hour tour will feature the GPU cluster students are using during the summer school and a trip through the NCSA's machine room. Space is limited, so please sign up for a tour at the check-in desk.

At all other sites, and for those at NCSA not taking the tour, hands-on lab will continue.
2:45 p.m.
Break
3:00 p.m.
CUDA Tools, Libraries, and Software Resources
    -- CUDA Textual Profiler & Performance Tuning
    -- A Sampling ofCUDA Libraries
Teaching Staff

Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
4:30 p.m.
Adjourn
Thursday, August 13, 2009
7:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.
Wen-Mei Hwu, University of Illinois

Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
9:20 a.m.
Break
9:30 a.m.
John Stone, University of Illinois

Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
11:00 a.m.
Lunch
Noon
Hands-on Lab
Nady Obeid, Xiao-Long Wu and I-Jui "Ray" Sung, University of Illinois
1:30 p.m.
Aaron Shinn, University of Illinois

Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
2:45 p.m.
Break
3:00 p.m.
David Cox, Harvard University

Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
4:30 p.m.
Adjourn
5:00 p.m.
NCSA only — Pizza Reception
Friday, August 14, 2009
7:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.
Building Many-Core Communities
    -- Future Directions and Conclusions
    -- Using the Internet to Build Community
Wen-Mei Hwu and Andy Schuh, University of Illinois

Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
9:00 a.m.
Sharing of Plans for Using GPUs in Research
Attendees

Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
10:30 a.m.
Break
10:45 a.m.
Participant Feedback - online survey
11:15 a.m.
Boxed lunches to stay or go
Noon
Adjourn

Video presentations, lessons, and other resources from the first summer school offered by the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering, which focused on GPU and multicore processors, are available online.