If there’s one meetup to make this year, this is the one! Please be sure to encourage friends and colleagues with an interest in HPC/GPU to come join in the fun.

Location
Offendorfer (5th floor) at AOL’s offices at 770 Broadway, New York, NY at 6 PM

Speakers
David Luebke
Andreas Klöckner

Come by at 1pm on Tuesday and you can also meet co-author Dean Allemang.

New Orleans, LA Nov 15-19, 2010

This post is long overdue, but I recently attended Supercomputing 2010 and wanted to share my thoughts on the high-performance computing conference. More than 10,000 computer scientists, developers, and researchers filled half of the sprawling Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.

I was able to meet with several current and potential Morgan Kaufmann authors either during sessions or in one of the many lounges. Sessions included computer science in education, reconfigurable computing, parallel programming, GPGPU, OpenCL, Python, domain-specific languages, and more. Heterogeneous and green computing were on the minds of many, with keynote speakers observing that the environmentally-friendly “green computing” list was dominated by CPU-GPU machines.

Attendees expressed interest in a variety of Morgan Kaufmann titles including Programming Massively Parallel Processors, An Introduction to Parallel Programming, and GPU Computing Gems: Emerald Edition

Although Morgan Kaufmann did not have a table this year, but we plan to exhibit next year in partnership with our colleagues in Elsevier Journals. Please plan to visit us in Seattle at Supercomputing 2011, scheduled for November 12 – 18!

Date

November 15-19, 2010

Location
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
New Orleans, LA

Attending
[MK] Todd Green

Authors present
Wen-mei W. Hwu
Rob Farber
Andrew Sloss
Geoffrey Fox
Jack Dongarra
Ian Foster

Orlando, FL Dec 8 – 10, 2010
Data Governance is one of the few meetings focused on this important topic, and although the mid-year meeting hasn’t run for the past 2 years, Wilshire brought it back this year because of a somewhat stronger economy and strong demand from attendees. Wilshire was pleased with the attendance and the strong agenda they offered, which covered everything from the basics of what Data Governance is through to the governance of metadata.
This year attendance at the conference was a good mix of business and data people, due to a current trend to shift from DG from IT to the business side.  This was evident by the fact that many of the business folks in attendance were largely starting from the bottom and needed solid introductory information about terminology, methods, and how to get started with a DG initiative.   There is strong interest in this topic due to corporate governance changes and new regulations.Many of MK’s authors were speakers at the conference, including John Ladley, David Loshin, Malcolm Chisholm, and Peter Aiken.

The conference was sponsored by key players in the DG area, including IBM, Kalido, DataFlux, Collibra, Global IDS, and Trillium Software.

Tony Shaw, the director of Wilhsire was pleased with the conference and plans to run it again next year, in addition to the Summer Data Governance conference, which will be held in June 2011 in San Diego.

Date
December 8-10, 2010

Location
Renaissance Hotel
Orlando, FL

Attending
[MK] Jenifer Niles