[Cuga] Parallel Computing in Experimental Physics---a message from David Lawrence

[Rachel Harris]

Invitation to participate in the
Workshop on Parallelism in Experimental Nuclear Physics (3rd circular)
     Jan. 6-7, 2011
     Christopher Newport University
     Newport News, VA

This workshop is free and open to all users, staff, and students who 
have an interest in parallel computing with a particular focus on 
experimental physics. The workshop itself will take place on Thursday 
Jan. 6th followed by an optional GlueX specific tutorial on Jan. 7th.

The workshop will be focused on parallelization in modern and 
near-future computing hardware and software. These technologies can be 
leveraged by next generation Experimental Nuclear Physics projects which 
will produce RHIC and LHC level data volumes. The workshop will take 
place at Christopher Newport University which is 5 minutes away from the 
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab).

The workshop will consist of a full day of talks and discussion with an 
evening reception. The optional second day will consist of a tutorial on 
using software developed for the GlueX experiment in Hall-D which 
contains multiple parallelizing technologies (multi-threading, SIMD 
instructions, and GPUs).

Topics include:

     Compilers and Performance Tools
     GPUs
     Multi-threading
     Vectorization/SIMD
     Distributed Computing
     Parallelism in DAQ systems
     Parallelism in Simulation

We will have speakers from Intel, Fermilab, SLAC, and Rutherford 
Appleton Labs as well as local JLab experts.

Registration Deadline January 1, 2011
No registration fee
Some student travel support available

More information can be found on the website including the registration 
page here:
http://conferences.jlab.org/Parallelism2011/index.html

Sent on behalf of the organizing committee:

David Lawrence*
Ed Brash*
Ole Hansen
Simon Taylor
David Heddle
Beni Zihlmann
Sascha Somov

     *Co-Chair