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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Publication from : Tiziana Ferrari Tiziana.Ferrari@egi.eu Targets : VO managers/vlemed vlemed-vo-managers@biggrid.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear VO Managers and NGI Operations Managers
The EGI-InSPIRE General Purpose Graphics Processing Units Virtual Team (GPGPU-VT) is a newly created user orientated support action to gather information about the current usage and any planned future usage of GPGPUs on the EGI grid infrastructure. GPGPUs are now used in many of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, and there usage in High Throughput Computing environments is also expected to increase rapidly over the next few years.
The core objectives shall be to see: who is using GPGPUs or plan to use GPGPUs; how they use them; what application development libraries/environments are most commonly used; what problems the users have encountered; and based on current user-experience, determine if there is a community-wide desire to see (some) tighter integration into the grid middleware.
We are currently looking for users who are willing to participate in this virtual team to provide expertise/help in the following:
a) Plan and deliver a suitable User Community survey that captures the core objectives, b) Gather use-cases, c) Help make recommendations to Operations Teams, Resource Providers and Middleware providers as to how the GPGPUs can be best accommodated.
If you would like to participate, then please send an email to Karolis Eigelis karolis.eigelis@egi.eu the EGI.eu supporter of the project. You can do so by sending your EGI SSO account in the email or by setting up an EGI SSO account if you still don't have one - see www.egi.eu/sso.
For further details, see: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/VT_GPGPU.
The first GPGPU-VT phone conference shall be held on Thursday, 7th June at 2:00pm CET. Further details can be found at: http://evo.caltech.edu/evoNext/koala.jnlp?meeting=MMMeMn2M2BDtDi9I98D29M
Regards, Tiziana Ferrari and John Walsh on behalf of the GPGPU virtual team
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