Where: WEP HUB, BLDG. 9, LEVEL 2
Description
What is WEPs greatest natural resource? The people! WEP is an opportunity to network. Make the most of this natural resource by talking to some of the most experienced, innovative, passionate people at WEP - the Speakers! Often it is the chance encounters with someone new that lead to new ideas, projects, perspectives and ventures and these speakers merit your undivided attention. This event is a unique and privileged opportunity, to meet some of the great names in the fields of science, technology, business and entrepreneurship. The Speaker for this event will be announced by December 8, 2013
Rob Farber
Rob Farber is a recognized expert in highly parallel programming with emphasis that code is portable, scalable and independent of architecture. He is currently Chief Scientist for his consulting company that has a variety of research grants plus contracts with large technology companies (including NVIDIA, Intel and AMD). He has been a scientist at US national laboratories including Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and on-staff as a visiting scientist at international institutions such as the Irish Center for High end Computation. As an entrepreneur, he has co-founded two successful companies and performed as consultant to fortune 100 companies. Rob also served on the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute and authored “CUDA Application Design and Development”, with the follow-up book in development. As an author/teacher, Rob has 100+ peer reviewed scientific publications. His freely available teaching codes have ran on two of the largest computer systems currently available: the Xeon Phi based Stampede system at UT Austin (2.2 PF/s using 3,000 nodes), and the Nvidia Kepler based Titan system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory(13 PF/s using 16,384 nodes).
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