January 27, 2015
Doon Campus
Title: Why Would I Use Graphics Processing Units?
Speaker:
Pawel Pomorski
High Performance Computing Programming Specialist
SHARCNET & Compute Canada
About the Speaker:
Pawel Pomorski is currently a High Performance Computing Programming Specialist at SHARCNET and Compute Canada based at University of Waterloo. His scientific expertise covers the areas of condensed matter physics and biophysics. Dr. Pomorski received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in physics from McGill University in 2002 and his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto in 1996.
Event Description
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) can provide a significant increase in speed for certain types of scientific computations. This seminar will discuss which programs can benefit from this speedup and how, in certain cases, it can be obtained without much effort using already existing packages and libraries. Simulation packages already accelerated for the GPU will be discussed, with focus on the Nanoscale Molecular Dynamics (NAMD) program as an example. The use of GPU-enabled numerical libraries useful for common problems will also be discussed. The use of these techniques will be demonstrated with example runs on SHARCNET's new GPU cluster. While not the focus of this seminar, a brief overview of available programming approaches for GPUs will be also provided.
Time
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
Conestoga College, Doon Campus, Main Building Room 2A301
For more information:
For additional information about this, or other SHARCNET @ Conestoga Seminar Series, please contact Dalibor Dvorski at ddvorski@conestoga.on.ca.