SCD News > Announcement: April 22, 2005

SCD seminar: "GPUs: Engines for future high-performance computing"

SCD will host the following seminar on May 5, 2005: "GPUs: Engines for Future High-Performance Computing"

Presented by:

John Owens, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Davis

Date, time, location:

Thursday, May 5, 2005
11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
Chapman Room, NCAR Mesa Laboratory

Abstract

In the last three years, commodity graphics processors (GPUs) have evolved from fixed-function graphics units into powerful, programmable data-parallel processors. These streaming processors are capable of sustaining computation rates substantially greater than today's modern CPUs, with technology trends indicating a widening gap in the future. Researchers in the evolving field of general-purpose computation on graphics processors (GPGPU) have demonstrated mappings to these processors for a wide rande of computationally intensive tasks. In this talk, I will provide motivation for and an overview of the state of this field and discuss recent research efforts at Davis and elsewhere.

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