[AG-TECH] FW: Seminar: HPC on SIMD Cards - Mike Giles - 10th Oct 2007

[Ian Dennell]

High Performance Computing on SIMD Cards

Prof Mike Giles, Oxford University Computing Laboratory

10th October 2007, 3:30-4:30pm Room 1:10, Kilburn Building

Abstract:
While Intel and others are developing general purpose processors with multiple independent cores, companies like nVidia and Clearspeed are developing cards with specialised chips with a very large number of SIMD cores, all carrying out the same operations simultaneously but with different data. In this talk, I will begin with a brief survey of the latest developments in MIMD and SIMD chips, and then discuss our recent experience in implementing a trivially parallel financial Monte Carlo application on the nVidia and Clearspeed cards.

Virtual Venue is Red Barn: red-barn(sam.ag.manchester.ac.uk)@conference.mcs.anl.gov

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Best wishes,

Dr Craig Lucas
High Performance Computing

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