High Performance Computing on SIMD Cards Prof Mike Giles, Oxford University Computing Laboratory 10th October 2007, 3:30-4:30pm Room 1:10, Kilburn Building Abstract: While Intel and others are developing general purpose processors with multiple independent cores, companies like nVidia and Clearspeed are developing cards with specialised chips with a very large number of SIMD cores, all carrying out the same operations simultaneously but with different data. In this talk, I will begin with a brief survey of the latest developments in MIMD and SIMD chips, and then discuss our recent experience in implementing a trivially parallel financial Monte Carlo application on the nVidia and Clearspeed cards. Virtual Venue is Red Barn: red-barn(sam.ag.manchester.ac.uk)@conference.mcs.anl.gov For technical assistance regarding the Access Grid, please contact [email protected] If possible, please let us know in advance if your site intends to join a seminar. Further Information http://www.mc.manchester.ac.uk/research/seminars/ Best wishes, Dr Craig Lucas High Performance Computing Research Computing Services University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL T: +44 (0) 161 275 7029 F: +44 (0) 161 275 0637 E: [email protected] W: http://www.rcs.manchester.ac.uk/