CHARM ++ Workshop Tackles Multi-Core, Petascale, Exascale Computing

4/26/2010

Prof. Kale and his research team will host the CHARM++ workshop to discuss the topics on the future of parallel programming.

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University of Illinois computer science professor Sanjay Kale and his research group, Parallel Programming Laboratory (PPL) will host the 8th Annual Workshop on Charm ++ and its Applications from April 28 through April 30.  The workshop will be held in the Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science on the campus of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

PPL is the developer of the Charm ++/AMPI parallel programming system.  The Charm++ Workshop is aimed both at taking stock of the collaborative interdisciplinary research projects in which PPL participates, and exploring research areas which employ the primary tools provided by PPL.  This includes both petascale and exascale high performance computing, along with multi-core computing.  Highlights will include keynote speaker James C. Browne, University of Texas at Austin, panel discussion titled “Exascale by 2018. Really?”, talks on fault tolerance, parallel applications, and the Blue Waters projects.  The agenda and registration information is available on the PPL website at http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/charmWorkshop/.  Illinois students are welcome to attend and encouraged to register. 

In addition to the computer scientists from PPL, the collaborators represented at this workshop include those from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (CS, ME, MS, Physics, Beckman), University of Washington – Seattle, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Princeton University, NYU, INRIA, IBM and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC).


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This story was published April 26, 2010.