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GPU@BU workshop announcement

Published: October 6th, 2011

The second GPU@BU workshop will be held on November 8–9, 2011, with sponsorship from the BU Center for Computational Science and the Hariri Institute of Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, and additional funding from NSF.

The two-day event will assemble several researchers from Boston-area universities, and guests, to discuss the latest research in using GPU hardware for scientific computing applications.

This workshop is organized by the co-investigators of NSF award OCI 0946441: Richard Brower (PI), Lorena Barba and Claudio Rebbi. Current confirmed speakers include:

  • Ron Babich, Boston University and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
  • Cris Cecka, Harvard University
  • Michel Clark, currently at Harvard but joining NVIDIA soon
  • Jonathan Cohen, NVIDIA
  • Chris Hill, MIT
  • David Kaeli, Northeastern University
  • Simon Layton, Boston University
  • Rio Yokota, formerly at Boston University and recently at KAUST