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Owen Densmore

OpenCL class

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Robert Geist, who spoke recently at SFX (see below) has offered to lead a 3 day class on OpenCL!

OpenCL is the newly emerging standard for GPU use for high performance computation, lattice-Boltzmann methods for example. And there is even a WebCL being designed for browsers: http://www.khronos.org/webcl/

Current dates are set up to be during the day next Wednesday, then Friday, then Wednesday, i.e., 12th, 14th, 19th.

We'd like to get a head count of folks interested in this so could folks respond to the list if you'd be interested in attending?

-- Owen

Here's a description of Robert's recent talk:

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"Real-Time Modeling and Rendering of Natural Phenomena"

Robert Geist

Professor, School of Computing

Clemson University

WedTech @ Santa Fe Complex

Wed Sep 21, noon (bring a brownbag lunch)

ABSTRACT: Modeling and rendering natural phenomena, which includes all components of biophysical ecology, atmospherics, photon transport, and air and water flow, remains a challenging area for computer graphics research. Whether models are physically-based or procedural, model processing is almost always characterized by substantial computational demands which have almost always precluded real-time performance. Nevertheless, the recent development of new, highly parallel computational models, coupled with dramatic performance improvements in GPU-based execution platforms, has brought real-time modeling and rendering within reach. The talk will focus on the natural synergy between GPU-based computing and the so-called lattice-Boltzmann methods for solutions to PDEs. Examples will include photon transport for global illumination and modeling and rendering of atmospheric clouds, forest ecosystems, and ocean waves.

BIO: Robert Geist is a Professor in the School of Computing at Clemson University. He served as Interim Director of the School in 2007-2008, and he is co-founder of Clemson's Digital Production Arts Program. He received an M.A. in computer science from Duke University and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame. He was an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Duke University before joining the faculty at Clemson University. He is a member of IFIP WG 7.3, a recipient of the Günther Enderle Award (Best Paper, Eurographics), and a Distinguished Educator of the ACM.

http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~geist/homepage.html

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Owen Densmore

Re: OpenCL class

Administrator

We are going to have a change in the meeting times of the openCL class:

Days: Thursday (13th) followed by Wednesday (19th) and Friday (21st)
Times: 1:30p on each day

Sorry for any confusion! We'll get this on the SFX calendar asap.

And folks planning to attend, keep letting us know. It should be great to see how "the rest of the GPU" gets used .. i.e. from openGL to openCL! Please do drop by.

-- Owen

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

Robert Geist, who spoke recently at SFX (see below) has offered to lead a 3 day class on OpenCL!

OpenCL is the newly emerging standard for GPU use for high performance computation, lattice-Boltzmann methods for example. And there is even a WebCL being designed for browsers: http://www.khronos.org/webcl/

Current dates are set up to be during the day next Wednesday, then Friday, then Wednesday, i.e., 12th, 14th, 19th.

We'd like to get a head count of folks interested in this so could folks respond to the list if you'd be interested in attending?

-- Owen

Here's a description of Robert's recent talk:

--------------

"Real-Time Modeling and Rendering of Natural Phenomena"

Robert Geist
Professor, School of Computing
Clemson University

WedTech @ Santa Fe Complex
Wed Sep 21, noon (bring a brownbag lunch)

ABSTRACT: Modeling and rendering natural phenomena, which includes all components of biophysical ecology, atmospherics, photon transport, and air and water flow, remains a challenging area for computer graphics research. Whether models are physically-based or procedural, model processing is almost always characterized by substantial computational demands which have almost always precluded real-time performance. Nevertheless, the recent development of new, highly parallel computational models, coupled with dramatic performance improvements in GPU-based execution platforms, has brought real-time modeling and rendering within reach. The talk will focus on the natural synergy between GPU-based computing and the so-called lattice-Boltzmann methods for solutions to PDEs. Examples will include photon transport for global illumination and modeling and rendering of atmospheric clouds, forest ecosystems, and ocean waves.

BIO: Robert Geist is a Professor in the School of Computing at Clemson University. He served as Interim Director of the School in 2007-2008, and he is co-founder of Clemson's Digital Production Arts Program. He received an M.A. in computer science from Duke University and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame. He was an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Duke University before joining the faculty at Clemson University. He is a member of IFIP WG 7.3, a recipient of the Günther Enderle Award (Best Paper, Eurographics), and a Distinguished Educator of the ACM.

http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~geist/homepage.html