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The University of Tennessee will offer a summer school course in accelerating computational chemistry with general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) from Aug. 10-14. The course is offered in coordination with the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering. This course will provide students with the knowledge and practical skills necessary to start exploiting the power of GPGPUs in real chemistry applications. The course is especially designed for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in chemistry and related disciplines. Streaming video and two-way audio will link participants at the University of Tennessee (UT) to the summer school, hosted by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, that will provide the core instruction on device architecture, programming tools, and design of high-performance algorithms; see http://www.greatlakesconsortium.org/events/manycore/ for course information. At UT, this content will be supplemented with additional lectures, worked examples, and other materials specifically targeting the effective use of GPGPUs in computational chemistry, including quantum Monte Carlo, molecular electronic structure, and molecular dynamics. Expert assistance will be provided to enable attendees to make rapid progress on both first time use and advanced design of chemistry algorithms for GPGPUs. Students will have access to the resources of the UT Multidisciplinary Center for Future Computing that includes the latest NVIDIA GPGPUs and Intel Nehalem processors. Prerequisites are C, C++, Java, or equivalent programming knowledge and familiarity with command-line use of Linux, and each student should bring a wifi-enabled laptop. Fortran applications can employ GPGPU kernels, but kernels must be written in C/C++. Applications are due by July 15, 2009, and should be addressed to gpgpuschool at ion.chem.utk.edu. In the application please clearly indicate: * Full name * Home institution and department * Email address * Status: (graduate student, postdoc, other) * Research topic * Algorithms of interest * Programming experience Limited funds are available for partial or full support of the travel and local expenses of a few students, in particular to enable participation of underrepresented or disadvantaged groups. To apply for support, please include a brief paragraph in the application email to request and explain the need for support, and to describe the benefits that attending the workshop would have for both you and your institution. Organizers: * University of Tennessee: Robert J. Harrison, R.J. Hinde, Gregory D. Peterson * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Volodymyr Kindratenko, Thom Dunning * Stanford University: Todd Martinez * University of Pennsylvania: Michael L. Klein, Axel Kohlmeyer This workshop is supported by the National Science Foundation through the cyberenabled chemistry project "Future Computing in Chemistry." -- ======================================================================= Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey at cmm.chem.upenn.edu http://www.cmm.upenn.edu Center for Molecular Modeling -- University of Pennsylvania Department of Chemistry, 231 S.34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323 tel: 1-215-898-1582, fax: 1-215-573-6233, office-tel: 1-215-898-5425 ======================================================================= If you make something idiot-proof, the universe creates a better idiot.
