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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Publication from : Karolis Eigelis karolis.eigelis@egi.eu Targets : VO managers/vlemed vlemed-vo-managers@biggrid.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear VO managers,
GPU based computing is definitely gaining momentum in the scientific worlds, so the EGI-InSPIRE project setup a 'Virtual Team' to map out needs and requirements in scientific communities for accessing GPUs through grids or clouds.
Should EGI provide GPUs for scientific computing? If so, how? The GPGPU Virtual Team developed today and opened two surveys - one for scientific communities, another one for resource administrators. The first survey is relevant for you:
The purpose of the scientific communities survey is to gauge how the users currently use, or intend to use, GPUs or other accelerated devices in a distributed environment such as grids or clouds, or whether they shall use grid/cloud resources at all for this purpose. In particular, we would like to determine if there is a specific need from European research collaborations and their partners beyond Europe for a more tightly integrated GPGPU capability within the European Grid Infrastructure (www.egi.eu) or its Federated Cloud platform (go.egi.eu/cloud).
I would like to ask you to forward this survey to scientific communities who already use, or could use GPUs for scientific calculations. We would like to hear their opinion about how relevant such a service from EGI and the NGIs would be for them.
The survey is available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GPGPU_User_Community and the deadline to answer is the 13th of September. Information collected through the survey will be aggregated with information from other sites, and will be used by the EGI Operations teams to define a technical roadmap on integrating GPGPU capabilities into the production infrastructure.
Survey PDF version is available at https://wiki.egi.eu/w/images/3/30/Survey_GPGPU_users.pdf, for you to have a look at information needed before starting online survey.
Further information about the two surveys is available in this blog post: http://www.egi.eu/blog/2012/08/02/mapping_out_needs_and_requirements_for_gpu...
Many Thanks
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