Conference Highlights

KEYNOTE TALKS: It is our pleasure to announce the following invited keynote talks:

Stefan Turek (Technical University Dortmund):
UCHPC - UnConventional High Performance Computing for FEM Simulations
Martin Herbordt (Boston University):
Achieving High Performance with FPGA Acceleration: Case Studies in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Vincent Heuveline (KIT):
Emerging Hardware and Numerical Simulation: a Walk of Seven Bridges over the Gap

START WORKING ON MULTIPLE ACCELERATORS TODAY!: SGI offers access to its hybrid accelerator platform

including high-end NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, a PetaPath/ClearSpeed CATS node and XtreemData FPGA nodes. At MRSC2009, participants will have a chance to win 100 hours computing time on that SGI hybrid accelerator cluster.

GET FIRST HAND EXPERIENCES & UP-TO-DATE TECHNICAL INSIGHTS: Experts from various vendors

working in the area of many-core and reconfigurable computing will present their experiences and technical insights:

From Nano-Scale to Peta-Scale (Ulrich Becker-Lemgau, Intel)
The future of FPGA acceleration and hybrid systems (Stefan Möhl, Mitrionics)
Simulation in the Many-Core Era (Paolo Faraboschi, HP Labs)
Application acceleration with FPGAs and GPUs - challenges and opportunities (Magnus Peterson, Synective Labs)
Microsoft Parallel Computing Initiative (Matej Ciesko, Microsoft HPC)
SGI's Accelerator Enabling Program: Experiences in running a hybrid cluster using NVDIA TESLA, ClearSpeed CATS and XDi FPGAs (Matthias Fouquet-Lapar, SGI)
Scaling Applications on Cray Supercomputers (Wilfried Oed, Cray)
Sun Chip Multi Threading (CMT) and Accelerator Usage (Roland Rambau, Sun)
HMPP: A Directives-Based Compiler for Manycore Applications (Stephane Bihan, CAPS Enterprise)