Announcing the launch of HPC SIG Group in Singapore

Hello everyone,


Birth of a Special Interest Group in Singapore 


I just wanted to take this post to announce that myself and another fellow CUDA enthusiast have started a Special Interest Group (SIG) in Singapore that focuses on High Performance Computing which we affectionately call HPCSIG Singapore.


Group's Focus


This group's focuses on gathering administrators, researchers, developers or anyone whose interested in HPC to come together to share and learn new knowledge. This includes technology topics in Fortran, C/C++, OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, OpenCL, Python, Ruby etcc


Meetup


Our first meetup was held on 8 June 2011 at the Institute of High Performance Computing at 
Resonance Room, level 13, Connexis North Tower 1 Fusionopolis Way Singapore 138632 and we had about 20 attendees and 2 talks:



Group's Information/Forum


https://groups.google.com/group/hpcsig-singapore?hl=en                  (Google Group)
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_210520412314382 (Facebook)


Speakers for First Meetup


Simulations for Maritime Industry in SimPlus and the Need for HPC
Mr. Ye Rong
CTO
SimPlus Pte Ltd 


Introduction to CUDA Programming
Mr. Raymond Tay
Software Engineer
HP Labs, Singapore 


Participants


And we had the pleasure of Dr. Simon See (Chief Solution Architect of Nvidia), Dr. Rich Goh (Director in Institute of High Performance Computing) graced our first meetup. In the lineup were a HPC engineer who helped engineered the special effects for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, other HPC engineers whom are currently residing in Singapore helping to bring forth this movement.


What's next?


The meetup for July is likely to be canceled as many of the participants are busy with their respective commitments so it would not be in the interest of the group to meet but August is on!


Founder Co-Founder


Mr. Chung Shin Yee (Creator of SGC Ruby CUDA)


Mr. Raymond Tay (Cloud & GPU Developer)