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PRACE holds workshop on new languages, prototypes
PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, organized a workshop on new languages, hardware accelerators and energy efficiency in High Performance Computing (HPC). The workshop was held on 1st and 2nd of March, 2010 at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Garching near Munich.
The workshop was dedicated to the results of the evaluation of new languages for HPC and the prototypes and research activities of the “Future Technology” work package. Topics included hybrid Programming, PGAS and the DARPA HPCS languages, GPGPUs, Cell and Clearspeed accelerators and their programming models, FPGAs, performance prediction and energy efficiency.
The topics of the workshop were based on results collected for the two PRACE deliverables D8.3.2 “Final technical report and architecture proposal” and D6.6 “Report on petascale software libraries and programming models”. Eighteen speakers from nine European countries presented fifteen languages, five hardware prototypes and two research activities. The talks provided a comprehensive overview of key results and some additional information e.g. on the latest compiler updates.
More than sixty attendees got a deep insight in the state-of-the-art on hardware accelerator programming, had the opportunity to ask questions and to directly discuss with PRACE experts. A special session was used to clarify how the language assessment could become a permanent research activity within PRACE. All presentations are available online.
More information: Iris Christadler, e-mail: christadler(at)lrz.de, Dr. Herbert Huber, email: huber(at)lrz.de
About the PRACE workshop “New Languages & Future Technology Prototypes”:
For further information and a link to the presentations, see http://www.prace-project.eu/events/past-events/prace-workshop-new-languages-future-technology-prototypes-at-lrz-march-1-2-garching-germany/
A public version of the deliverable 8.3.2 is available on:
http://www.prace-project.eu/documents/d8-3-2.pdf/view