Upcoming What's New Lunch - Tuesday 20 June

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

Dear All,

The next "What's New" Lunch will take place on Tuesday, 20 June at 12:30
in the Common Area, 2nd floor, ex SISSA building (Via Beirut).

You're most cordially invited to join.

Title: "Journey of CPUs and GPUs as promising future for large-scale 
computation"

Speaker: Mihir Durve  (ICTP and UniTS)

Abstract:

The best supercomputer of one time is no match with the microprocessor 
in an average smartphone of today. In this discussion session, we shall 
take a look into the exciting journey of microprocessors starting from 
the first commercially available Intel 4004 microprocessor in 1971 to 
multicore Xeon CPUs of the current generation.

In recent years the multicore CPUs are being assisted by co-processors 
and/or Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to complete a task. The 
development of GPUs have added significant advancement in scientific 
computation. The GPUs which were initially developed for the gaming 
industry are also being used for large scale simulations and much more 
beyond that by the scientific community today. We shall look into recent 
hardware developments and software to extract performance out of the 
computing machines with both CPUs and GPUs. Briefly, we shall also take 
a look into the promising future of the computing machines.

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To find out more about "What's new lunches" please read below:

We are launching a new recurrent event in the QLS group, called "What's 
new" lunches

Where: Markov's lounge aka Common Area, old SISSA building (Via Beirut), 
2nd floor

When: Once a week at 12:30

What: Bring your own lunch, share it if you will, munch and discuss 
about what's new in physics/biology/computer-science/economics and
science/technology in general. It must be exciting!

Who: Each time one of us, from faculty to master students, chooses a 
subject for discussion and acts as a moderator by introducing the theme
and spurring the debate.

Why: Do you really need to ask ?

-- 
Erica Sarnataro
Group Secretary
Quantitative Life Sciences
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Trieste,  Italy
Tel. +39-040-2240623
e-mail: qls at ictp.it