23–27 Apr 2007
DESY Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

Many-Core CPUs - Parallel Computing in HEP

27 Apr 2007, 09:55
25m
Main Auditorium (DESY Hamburg)

Main Auditorium

DESY Hamburg

Notkestrasse 85 22607 Hamburg Germany

Speaker

Alf Wachsmann (SLAC)

Description

Parallel computing in HEP is regarded as exotic and unnecessary (at best). I will talk about the recent BaBar D0 mixing results and how parallel computation helped. I will also illustrate that parallel computing will be the only way to take advantage of the upcoming "many-core" CPUs.

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