[Colloquium] April 22: Full-day NVIDIA GPU Workshop with the Research Computing Center

[Kelsay Foust]

Please forward this event announcement to your colleagues who may be interested.
NVIDIA GPU Computing Workshop
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Participants will be provided breakfast, lunch, and refreshments throughout the day
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Kathleen A. Zar Room, John Crerar Library
Space is limited. Register HERE<https://training.uchicago.edu/course_detail.cfm?course_id=1499> <https://training.uchicago.edu/course_detail.cfm?course_id=1499>
Your participation in this workshop enters you to win your very own NVIDIA GPU workstation!


Details:

The NVIDIA GPU computing workshop will be a full day of hands-on exercises in GPU computing where you will learn how to program GPUs using languages such as OpenACC compiler directives, CUDA C programming, Python and Matlab. The workshop will be given by Jonathan Bentz, Ph.D., a Solution Architect for NVIDIA. The event will be especially useful for undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, researchers, and professors at the University of Chicago.

NVIDIA GPUs are the world's fastest and most efficient accelerators delivering world record scientific application performance. NVIDIAs CUDA Technology is the most pervasive parallel computing model, used by over 250 scientific applications and over 150,000 developers worldwide.

At the end of the workshop NVIDIA will be raffling-off one of their high-performance workstation GPU<http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-workstations.html>s<http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-workstations.html>. Register and complete the workshop for your chance to win!

Presenter Biography:

Jonathan Bentz is a Solution Architect with NVIDIA, focusing on Higher Education and Research customers. Prior to NVIDIA Jonathan worked for Cray as a software engineer in the Scientific Libraries group working on dense linear algebra and FFT software. Jonathan obtained his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry and his Masters of Science in Computer Science from Iowa State University.

Requirements:

Please bring your laptop to participate in the hands-on exercises. If you have any questions about this event or NVIDIA technology, please feel free to contact the Research Computing Center at info at rcc.uchicago.edu<mailto:info at rcc.uchicago.edu>.

Space is limited, reservations will be granted on a first come, first serve basis. Register here <https://training.uchicago.edu/course_detail.cfm?course_id=1499>
Hope to see you there!

Kelsay Foust
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Assistant to Dr. H. Birali Runesha, Assistant Vice President of Research Computing
Office of the Vice President for Research and National Laboratories

Director, Research Computing Center
The University of Chicago
6030 S. Ellis Ave., Suite 126
Chicago, IL 60637
Email: kelsayfoust at uchicago.edu<mailto:kelsayfoust at uchicago.edu>
Phone: (773) 702-3374
Fax: (773) 926-0916

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