Special Session on:
Advances in Heterogeneous Computing for Water Resources

Conveners:

André R. Brodtkorb, SINTEF
Wen-mei Hwu, University of Illinois

Description:

This session is focused on the use of heterogeneous computing resources (i.e. the combination of multi-core CPUs and many-core GPUs) for water resources. Over the last ten years, the use of GPUs for computation has gone from academic proof-of-concepts to industrially viable applications, showing speed-ups of 5-50 times over traditional approaches. Speed is of the utmost importance for many applications in water resources, making the use of heterogeneous computing attractive. In this session, we seek presentations of the state-of-the-art of heterogeneous computing for applications in water resources. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, novel applications of heterogeneous computing resources; computational efficiency and performance assessment; and accuracy, and verification and validation.