Supercomputing in Plain English (SiPE) Live Video Conferencing

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Registration is now open! Send e-mail to hneeman@ou.edu.

Supercomputing in Plain English (SiPE), Spring 2013
Available live in person and live via videoconferencing

Tuesdays starting Jan 22 2013, 2:00pm Central Time
(4:00pm Atlantic, 3:00pm Eastern, 1:00pm Mountain, 12:00noon Pacific)

Live in person: National Weather Center 1313
Live via FREE videoconferencing: details to be announced

http://www.oscer.ou.edu/education/

So far, the SiPE workshops have reached roughly 1000 people at 166 institutions, agencies, companies and organizations in 42 US states and territories and 5 other countries:

* 125 academic institutions;
* 18 government agencies;
* 16 private firms;
* 7 not-for-profit organizations.

SiPE is targeted at an audience of not just computer scientists but especially scientists and engineers, including a mixture of undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff.

These workshops focus on fundamental issues of HPC as they relate to Computational and Data-enabled Science & Engineering, including:

* the storage hierarchy;
* instruction-level parallelism;
* high performance compilers;
* shared memory parallelism (e.g., OpenMP);
* distributed parallelism (e.g., MPI);
* HPC application types and parallel paradigms;
* multicore optimization;
* high throughput computing;
* GPGPU computing;
* scientific and I/O libraries;
* scientific visualization.

The key philosophy of the SiPE workshops is that an HPC-based code should be maintainable, extensible and, most especially, portable across platforms, and should be sufficiently flexible that it can adapt to, and adopt, emerging HPC paradigms.

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Open Source GIS Conference This June 2012

Join the Open Source GIS conference happening in The Netherlands from June 25 until 28 June 2012.

This conference is organized by the MapWindow GIS, DotSpatial, SharpMap and OSGeo.nl communities in partnership with Alumni association VVA-Larenstein. The purpose of the 4-day conference is to highlight significant aspects of Open Source GIS. The conference will appeal to developers, users, students and educators.

If you are interested, you can still register. The cost structure for this conference is kept low due to volunteerism and donations of time and resources from partners. For just €250 you have free access to all presentations, meetings and workshops of this 4-day conference.

More info about the conference can be found here.

Open Source GIS Conference Live Stream
For those of you unable to attend the conference, a professional recording company will live stream all of the 36 presentations over the 4 days. If you're keen to attend, but cannot do so, this is the perfect opportunity to be involved. For £10 or more you'll get the link to the live stream. After the conference the recordings will be placed on YouTube for everybody to watch. Read this for more info of the online streaming.

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