If you’re attending the International Supercomputing Conference this June in Hamburg, Germany, then you might want to check out the “Making your Desktop a Supercomputer?” panel.  They will be discussing hardware and software that’s making inroads into mainstream applications, and how we can begin using it.  To speak are:

  • Prof. Dr. Kun Zhou – Panel Chair
  • Dr. Justin Hensley of AMD, to disuss the basics of Graphics Hardware
  • Dr. Pradeep Dubey of Intel, to discuss Larrabee
  • Dr. Miguel Sainz of NVidia, to discuss CUDA
  • Dr. Li-Yi Wei of Microsoft, to discuss parallelizing algorithms though to be intrinsically sequential
  • PRofessor Pedro Sander of Hong Kong University, discuss GPU in database applications

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