This is the second part of the posting on the SC10 Report on Climate Thrust Area by Will Sawyer. Community Climate Model Development In a masterworks talk, Ricky Rood (professor at Univ. of Michigan) insisted climate projections offer an historic opportunity: for the first time we have a glimpse into the future and can potentially [...]
The short series of reports from the SC11 conference closes with two posting from our colleague Will Sawyer (CSCS) on the Climate Thrust Area. The climate thrust area had a significant presence at the conference. The basic program consisted of one plenary talk, four masterworks presentations, one BoF session, two panels and a number of [...]
We continue our short series of reports from the SC11 conference based on the input of our colleague Will Sawyer. This posting is dedicated to advanced topics in heterogeneous programming with OpenCL Trying to find out whether OpenCL is the right horse to bet on, we attended Advanced Topics in Heterogeneous Programming with OpenCL, given [...]
We start a short series of reports from the SC11 conference (thanks to Will Sawyer of CSCS for sharing with us his experiences). The first episode is dedicated to an Introduction to OpenCL given by Benedict Gaster (AMD) and Tim Mattson (Intel). General impressions: the architecture and programming model seems cleaner than CUDA, e.g., the [...]
A look to the schedule of the Supercomputing Conference (SC10) in New Orleans (November 13-19, 2010) shows that Switzerland is being represented in panels, doctoral research showcases and as a ACM Gordon Bell Finalist. Will Sawyer (CSCS) will be chair of the technological thrust area Addressing Climate Change Uncertainties. Each year, the SC Technical Program [...]
