Now completed: Development Tools for Parallel Computing
Posted on Mon, Jan 23, 2012
Date/Time: Thursday 9 February 2012, 6.00pm - 8.00pm
Venue: The Chartered Institute for IT
The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA. The nearest underground stations are Covent Garden and Charing Cross.
Speaker: David Lecomber
Summary:
The arrival of multi- and many- core systems has led to an explosion in the degree of concurrency prevalent today. This has led to a consequent explosion in the reach of parallel computing and the exposure of developers to previously niche ideas.
In this talk, I will explore how extreme concurrency and heterogeneous systems are impacting high-performance computing (HPC), and its overlap and implications for developers outside of HPC. I will talk about the challenges of bug fixing in this environment, as exemplified by the UK's Allinea Software, whose debugging tool is designed to scale for software running in environments from the humble multi-core desktop, through GPU systems, and onwards to Petascale machines with over 200,000 cores.
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