Pradeep Dubey, a senior principal engineering for Massive Data Computing at Intel, will give the keynote address at the 2009 Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing (SAAHPC), to be held on July 27-31 at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Computing platforms and the World Wide Web are undergoing significant architectural transitions driven by the unprecedented convergence of the need to process massive amounts of data with the availability of massive compute resources. This has significant algorithmic implications for traditional approaches to many common computational problems in visual computing and analytics. This further has the potential to enable a new class of Connected Computing applications. The service-oriented focus and real-time nature of these emerging applications make computing more implicit and capable of delivering a significantly more immersive experience to a broader class of end-users. Dubey's talk will explore the compute-platform implications of this trend.

SAAHPC will bring together developers of computing accelerators—including GPUs, FPGAs, vector processors, and other special-purpose chips—and the scientists and engineers who use, or hope to use, these technologies to speed their work and enhance their productivity.

Technology developers and scientific researchers who are interested in presenting at SAAHPC should submit extended abstracts of 2-3 pages to submit@saahpc.org by April 20.

For more information on SAAHPC, see: http://www.saahpc.org/.