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DTSTART:20111114T233000Z
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DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:ABSTRACT: This session provides an introduction to the use of specialized hardware ("accelerators") to improve the performance of applications, with particular focus placed on General-Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU).  Topics covered will include: overview of some available accelerators; advantages and disadvantages of using accelerators; interfacing accelerators and the PCIe bottleneck; accelerator programming models, languages, tools, and libraries (including CUDA, OpenCL, cuBLAS, etc.). Includes application case studies of accelerator use.=0A=0APrerequisite: "Shared Memory Parallel Programming using OpenMP" session or equivalent.
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