[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT - PyCUDA and GPU Programming - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2008-12-04
Bill McGonigle
bill at bfccomputing.com
Thu Dec 4 00:21:15 EST 2008
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Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group
http://dlslug.org/
a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org
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The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held:
Thursday, December 4th, 7-9PM
at: Dartmouth College, Carson L02
All are welcome, free of charge.
Agenda
7:00 Sign-in, networking
7:15 Introductory remarks
7:20 PyCUDA and GPU Programming
presented by Nicholas Sinnott-Armstrong
Nick will give a talk about an exciting emerging technology that
deals with the use of GPUs. PyCUDA (and CUDA in general) is an
easy to use framework to take advantage of the massive
processing power and memory bandwidth available on the GPUs of
most enthusiast machines writing simple templated C code. A
short introduction to Python will be followed by an in-depth
look at how easy it is to write really fast code for scientific
and HPC applications at a very low system cost. Everyone who
attends is invited and encouraged (though not required) to bring
a machine with SSH support -- GNU screen-cast will be set up to
give everyone a hands-on view of the presentation.
Nicholas Sinnott-Armstrong is a devout follower of the Open
Source methodology. He has worked on numerous Open Source
projects, including the Open Graphics Project, Lumiera, and
Python, and spends his free time browsing the universe Ubuntu
and Debian repos. His favorite language to program in is Scheme,
but when that doesn't work out, he settles for a mix of Haskell,
Python, Verilog, and C. He has a special interest in hardware
solutions to software problems, including but not limited to
FPGAs and GPUs.
8:50 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make
announcements or ask a linux/floss question of the group.
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