The inaugural EMiT event, held at The University of Manchester on Friday the 11th of April 2014, included a distinguished list of invited speakers. Talks can be downloaded via links below.
Session | Speaker | Organisation | Role/Division | Topic | Presentation |
Registration & refreshments (09:00-09:45) | |||||
Welcome & Introduction (09:45-10:00) | Dr Benedict Rogers | ![]() |
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering | Welcome to the day and introduction to emerging tech related work going on inside the university | |
Session 1: 1 (10:00-11:00) | Stephen Blair-Chappell | ![]() |
Technical Computing | Emerging technologies: Programming for the Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor. | Presentation Case Studies |
Session 1: 1 (10:00-11:00) | Dr Wim Vanderbauwhede | ![]() |
Lecturer at the School of Computing Science of the University of Glasgow | FPGA-accelerated High-Performance Computing | Presentation |
Refreshments (11:00-11:30) | |||||
Session 1: 2 (11:30-13:00) | Prof. David Emerson | ![]() |
Computational Engineering Group | Emerging technology within the STFC. | |
Session 1: 2 (11:30-13:00) | Erik Vynckier | ![]() |
Chief Investment Officer, Insurance, AllianceBernstein | High Performance Computing in Financial Services – Challenges and Opportunities | Presentation |
Lunch & Vendor Exhibition (13:00-14:00) | |||||
Session 2 (14:00-15:30) | Dr John Ashley | ![]() |
Senior Solution Architect | GPU accelerated computing. | Presentation |
Session 2 (14:00-15:30) | Prof. Rob Lamb | ![]() |
Managing Director JBA Trust | Early GPU adoption within an SME company. | Presentation |
Session 2 (14:00-15:30) | Dr Ben Tordoff | ![]() |
Lead developer: GPU and parallel algorithms | MATLAB: GPU support in a high-level language. | Presentation |
Refreshments (15:30-16:00) | |||||
Chaired panel discussion & close (16:00-16:30) |