Agenda
Summer School 2008: Accelerators for Science and Engineering Applications: GPUs and Multicores
Monday, August 18, 2008
11:00 a.m.
Registration / Check-in
NCSA Atrium
Noon
12:50 p.m.
Welcome
Thom Dunning, director of NCSA and
Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan professor and director of the Virtual School for Computational Science and Engineering
Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
NCSA 1030
1:00 p.m.
2:15 p.m.
2:30 p.m.
3:45 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Wen-Mei Hwu
Robert Brunner, Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Klaus Schulten, Swanlund Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Pratap Vanka, Mechanical Science & Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yan Xu, Microsoft
Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
NCSA 1030
5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
8:00 a.m.
Continental breakfast
NCSA Atrium
9:00 a.m.
10:15 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
Noon
1:00 p.m.
2:30 p.m.
NCSA tour
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.
3:45 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
David B. Kirk, chief scientist, NVIDIA
Streaming video is available
(Microsoft .asx)
NCSA 1030
5:30 p.m.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
8:00 a.m.
Continental breakfast
NCSA Atrium
9:00 a.m.
Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
NCSA 1030
10:15 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
NCSA 1030
Noon
1:00 p.m.
2:30 p.m.
NCSA tour
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.
3:45 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
Naga Govindaraju, senior researcher, Microsoft
Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
NCSA 1030
5:30 p.m.
Brainstorming session
pizza provided
NCSA Atrium
Thursday, August 21, 2008
8:00 a.m.
Continental breakfast
NCSA Atrium
8:30 a.m.
Group photo of summer school participants
9:00 a.m.
Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
NCSA 1030
10:15 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
John E. Stone, senior research programmer, Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois
Streaming video is available
(Microsoft .asx)
NCSA 1030
Noon
1:00 p.m.
2:30 p.m.
NCSA tour
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.
3:45 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
Potential Clinical Application of Metabolic Imaging Using GPU
Keith R. Thulborn, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Illinois at Chicago
Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
NCSA 1030
5:30 p.m.
Friday, August 22, 2008
8:00 a.m.
Continental breakfast
NCSA Atrium
8:30 a.m.
Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)
Aaron Shinn, Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NCSA 1030
9:45 a.m.
Student Feedback
NCSA 1030
10:15 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
Sharing of individual or group projects
NCSA 1030
12:30 p.m.
Boxed lunches to stay or go
NCSA Atrium
1:00 p.m.
Future directions and conclusions
Streaming video is available (Microsoft .asx)