May / June 2005
Top minds in high performance computing gather in Guelph
Guelph, a picturesque university town an hour's drive from Toronto was, at least for a few days, the very epicenter for high performance computing in North America, as over 160 scientists, researchers and industry officials gathered there for the recent international HPCS 2005 conference.
SHARCNET was the official host of the 19th annual International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications, May 15 to 18, which brought the top minds in HPC from five countries and throughout Canada to the University of Guelph.
Over 50 papers and fast abstracts were presented during the technical sessions.
HPCS 2005 hosted a stellar international lineup of top High Performance Computing scientists, notably Dr. David Bailey from Berkeley National Laboratories, Dr. Jonathan Borwein from Dalhousie University, Dr. Puyong Wang from the Shanghai Supercomputing Centre and Dr. Robert Moser from the University of Texas.
The poster sessions were a popular part of the conference. "Hydra: A Distributed Compilation System", by students from the University of Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil won the $500 Best Poster Award, sponsored by ORION.
James Stark and Greg Klotz from Computing and Information Science at the University of Guelph took home the Parallel Programming Contest prize and a $1,000 award from Sun Microsystems.
The contest pitted teams of two programmers against each other. They had four hours to solve three parallel problems on one of SHARCNET's cluster computers.
Second place and a $500 contribution from ORION went to Mohammad Khali and Hao Cheng from Carleton University, Honourable mentions ($200 each from SHARCNET) went to the teams of Hao Lac and James Palmer, and John Carter and Ming Xu, all from the University of Guelph.
For more information including list of participants, videos of selected keynote addresses, information about the proceedings and copies of presentations, visit www.sharcnet.ca/events/hpcs2005.
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