***Sincere Apologies for Cross Posting*** ESNW/MRCCS Seminar 1400-1500 GMT Friday 3rd June 2005
"The Next Wave: Co-processors for Application Acceleration." Simon McIntosh-Smith, Director of Architecture & Applications ClearSpeed Technology PLC, www.clearspeed.com "With year on year performance increases for single-thread codes drastically diminishing, a new class of co-processors designed for much higher performance on specific applications is emerging. This talk will explore this trend, and compare some of the different approaches being taken. It will explore ClearSpeed's new CSX class of accelerators for standard math libraries in some detail." Venue: Room 1.10 Kilburn Building (ESNW Access Grid) Chair: [email protected] URL: http://www.esnw.ac.uk/ --- Dr Lee Margetts High Performance Computing University of Manchester http://www.sve.man.ac.uk/General/Staff/margetts
