Round Table - High Performance Computing
On the 18th November 2008 the JCSE host a Round Table discussion on the question: "How do we develop software for computationally instensive applications?" There were presentations from Prof Colin Wright (Centre for High Performance Computing). Prof Scott Hazelhurst (Centre for Bioinformatics, Wits University), Dr Wimpie Clarke (University of Johannesburg) and Dean Redelinghuys (OPTI-NUM Solutions). Participants at the Round Table included vendors of HPC solutions, academics and members of the user community including banks and the mining industry. The following presentations are available:
Colin Wright - The National Centre for HPC
Scott Hazelhurst - Experience using Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2)
Wimpie Clarke - Using low cost graphics cards for HPC applications
In 2009 the JCSE will arrange several follow-on activities.