14 DAY TRIAL // As some of you might know, NVIDIA is quite actively involved in the fields of GPU and high-performance computing, and in 2011, the GPU manufacturer tends to bring the two closer together by working together with the Los Alamos National Laboratory in order to include their Accelerated High Performance Computing (HPC) Symposium at the third annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC).
According to NVIDIA, the even will be held at San Jose’s McEnery Convention Center from Oct. 11-14, 2011, and will practically allow all of the scientists and researchers directly interested in this often intertwined fields of the IT segment meet up and exchange ideas, points of view, etc., as well as stay informed on the latest technological developments.
“GTC has moved to the top of the annual agenda for the scientific and technical GPU computing community,” said Bill Dally, NVIDIA’s chief scientist. “The addition of the Accelerated HPC Symposium in this event underscores the central importance of GPUs and parallel computing.”
Ben Bergen, research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, who, as mentioned before, is a co-host of this event,s also commented on this announcement, saying that “the growing success of GTC makes it a natural venue for co-hosting the Accelerated HPC Symposium. This event draws senior scientists from national research labs across the globe, and their interests in hardware and software development make for a perfect match with GTC.”
Scientists not directly involved in the event's organization seem to also be quite excited by the idea, Klaus Schulten, Swanlund Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, saying that “it’s rare to attend a conference where there is such a broad a range of research disciplines represented. It is testament to the dramatic effects the GPU is having on complex scientific problems that an event like this is possible.”