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| "HPC in Industry" Breakout Session Announced... As part of this year's Machine Evaluation Workshop we will be running a breakout session entitled "HPC in Industry". The session will take place on Tuesday 2nd December. Please click here for more details. |
| "CUDA - GPU Computing for HPC" Breakout Session Announced... Gernot Ziegler (NVIDIA) will be hosting a breakout session at MEW19 entitled "CUDA - GPU Computing for HPC". The session will take place on Wednesday 3rd December. Please click here for more details. |
| Procurement Breakout Session Announced... As part of MEW19 we will be running a breakout session about academic procurements. The session will take place on Wednesday 3rd December. Admittance to the session is restricted to academics only. Please click here for more details. |
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Bob Pette - Vice President, Silicon Graphics Visualization Group - will be available throughout the day on Tuesday 2nd December and happy to meet with sites interested in discussing visualisation opportunities and specific projects. | |
| If you would like to arrange a meeting with Bob whilst attending the MEW please contact Georgina Ellis at gellis@sgi.com. |  |
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Introduction
The forthcoming 2008 Daresbury Machine Evaluation Workshop will be held on 2nd and 3rd December at the Holiday Inn Runcorn as part of the EPSRC's Distributed Computing Support Programme.
This Workshop is now established as a leading national event dedicated to distributed high performance scientific computing. The principle objective is to encourage close contact between the research communities from the Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Materials Programmes of EPSRC and the major vendors of workstations, software and peripherals.
You are invited to attend this year's workshop, which will have a format similar to that of previous years with about a dozen major vendors making 20-minute presentations on topics such as hardware, compilers, graphics, storage, networking etc. In past years the audience has been very appreciative of the technical content of these talks and we have encouraged the speakers nominated by the vendors to focus their presentations accordingly. Important components of the workshop include the availability of systems for benchmarking evaluation purposes, plus the exhibition itself. Vendors are providing Internet access to these systems prior to the event, and the availability of products on the day will help delegates evaluate the machines. We hope to make loaned systems available from the 1st December for the duration of the event.
The provisional programme assumes that we will start on the morning of the 2nd December, and finish around 4pm on the 3rd December. Online registration forms will be available shortly, we would be grateful if you could confirm your attendance - using the online registration form - before 26th November 2008. Please contact Damian Jones on +44 (0)1925 603805, Shirley Miller on +44 (0)1925 603240, or Laura Johnston +44 (0)1925 603529 (or email: machine_evaluation_workshop@dl.ac.uk) for information, or if you have any comments. The pages below will also contain up to date information as it arrives, please check back regularly.
We look forward to hearing from you, and hopefully meeting up at the workshop.
Yours sincerely
Jonathan Follows
Group Leader - Distributed Computing (DisCo)
Computational Science & Engineering Department
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