John Cavazos

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CHiPS 2009 Welcome

• John Cavazos
• Assistant Professor
• University of Delaware

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Purpose of Workshop

• Primary Goal
• Have Fun
• Mentoring
• Motivate YOU to get a PhD
• Secondary Goal
• HPC Tutorials (GPUs)
• Learn about current/future of HPC

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Sponsors
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Sponsors
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Mentoring Workshops

• CRA-W/CDC discipline-specific workshops
• 2008 Systems Mentoring Workshop
• http//www.cis.udel.edu/systems-mentoring-workshop
  /
• 2008 Computer Architecture Summer School
• http//www.princeton.edu/archss/
• 2007 Programming Language Summer School
• http//www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/pl-summer-
  2007/

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Note to Students

• Mentors are approachable
• Experts in their areas
• Were once like you!
• Develop an elevator talk
• 20 sec pitch of what you do or want to do

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Note to Students (contd)

• Motivation to talk to faculty
• Looking for students
• Good contact for grad school

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Note to Students (contd)

• Attend all sessions!
• Considerate of roommate
• Dont be Loud and Late
• Resist temptation to just talk to students

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Note to speakers

• Resist temptation to mingle amongst yourselves!
• Approach students

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Format of Presentations

• Ask Questions
• No stupid questions!
• Usual courtesy to ask after speakers
  presentation
• All presentations to be made available
• Speakers will present their story

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About myself

• Born and raised in Brownsville, Texas
• Graduate School
• University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Postdoctoral Research
• University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• Assistant Professor
• University of Delaware
• Research Adaptive Compilation

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Program (Saturday)

• Earning a PhD
• HPC Research
• Designing parallel algorithms
• GPU research talks

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Program (Sunday)

• HPC Hot Topics
• GPU Introduction
• Team Programming project
• Closing Keynote

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Program (Monday)

• NCSA Tour
• Mitrion tutorial
• CHiPS ends

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Lunches and Dinners

• Working lunches
• Getting into and paying for grad school
• Resumes
• Dinner
• Today Legends
• Tomorrow Dos Reales
• Opportunities for networking!

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Packet Contents

• NCSA Information
• Opportunities
• Reimbursement Form
• Wireless Information

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Final Motivation

• Last 10 years have been exciting
• Next 10 years predicted to be even more exciting!
• You are the future!

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Thank You for Coming!

• Any Questions?