Title: General Purpose Computing on GPUs (GPGPU) - what's all the fuss about?

Speaker: Dr. David Strip, Sandia National Laboratories

Date/Time: Monday, December 6, 2010, 9:30 am Mountain Time       

Location: CSRI Building/Room 90 (Sandia NM)

Brief Abstract: Are GPUs really the "next big thing" for MP programming? In the past year hundreds of universities have added GPU programming to the curriculum. The #2 machine on the TOP500 list uses GPUs to achieve it's ranking. But does this really add up to a new approach to computing? In this talk I'll give an overview of GPU architecture, introduce the programming model, and conclude with results from early applications.

CSRI POC: Mark D. Rintoul, 505-844-9592