Universidade do Minho - Braga, Portugal
WACS is a free set of seminars targeted to graduate students in Advanced Digital Media and in Computer Science. The main goal of this event is to expose expert researchers from Austin to graduate students, addressing issues that are relevant for every software developer in current days: parallelism in heterogeneous environments, with both multi-core CPUs and many-core GPUs.
The WACS will take place in
Braga, University of Minho
10th to 12th January 2011
Registration is free but mandatory, to plan ahead the required number of seats in the auditorium.
All registrations made before 7th January will receive a confirmation email and will have a guaranteed seat.
To register, please go here.
Any further questions, please contact the organizers at wacs2011 <at> di <dot> uminho <dot> pt
The session on Monday has been moved to the Auditorium of the School of Engineering. The session on Tuesday will still be at the Anf. A2 in the Dep. Informatics building (on the floor below the street level). The sessions on Wednesday will be at the Auditorium of the School of Sciences (close to the Dep. Informatics). More details on these locations here.
| Monday (open to a wide audience;photos) | |
|---|---|
| 14h00-17h00 | An overview of parallel applications and algorithms (slides) Keshav Pingali |
| Tuesday (targeted to specialists;photos) | |
| 16h30-18h00 | Irregular Applications on GPU (slides) Martin Burtscher |
| Wednesday (open to any CS graduate student interested;photos) | |
| 10h00-13h00 | State of the Art in Parallel Languages (including PGAS)(slides) Calvin Lin |
| 14h00-15h30h | GPU programming, as a co-processor device (slides) Martin Burtscher |
| 15h30-17h00 | Towards a science of parallel programming (slides) Keshav Pingali |
| WACS: Winter Advanced Computing Seminars 2011 Universidade do Minho - Braga, Portugal |