It’s that time of year. SC07 begins in Reno next week, and everyone around here is getting prepared. Unfortunately this is the second year in a row that I can’t attend Supercomputing. Last year I was at CASP and this year we are doing a 2-day structural genomics workshop at UTSA. Apparently I’m not the only one with Supercomputing blues. I will miss the chance to talk with vendors and work the PSC booth, but I at least have a poster and some labmates going to Reno.
While much of the conference is focused on high performance network technologies, there’s some great life science talks worth attending. There’s also a session that grabbed my attention,
High Performance Computing on GPUs with CUDA
where NAMD and NVidia developers will demonstrate MD simulations on graphics processors. Stay tuned for some juicy details about a demo from our booth.