Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing

VPAC hosts a range of talks and workshops presented by external parties. For information on upcoming events simply visit the 'news' page of VPACs website by clicking here.

The Raster Storage Archive Presentation

Copyright 2010 VPAC and OSDC.

Using open source technologies, we have built a web application that enables the storage and transformation of large amounts of geospatial data. The system acts as a database to be used by other applications, and scales to high-resolution national datasets.

The talk will present how we are using open source libraries and tools to achieve this. The first half will mostly focus on the system architecture – a series of web services that drive Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) command-line programs – and the advantages this has over a pure database approach.

The second half of the talk will address the importance of using open standards (e.g. interoperability), and the advantages for our client of using open source solutions (e.g. cost and maintainability).

GPU Computing Workshop July 2010

The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing and Swinburne University of Technology with the support of NVIDIA and sponsorship by Xenon Systems, delivered a GPU computing workshop to help researchers learn and adopt the benefits of GPUs in their research fields.

Slides from each presentation held at this event are available via the links below.

Mark Harris - Introduction to NVIDIA CUDA, Tesla and the Fermi Architecture
Mark Harris - CUDA Parallel Programming Model and C for CUDA
Mark Harris - Live Programming Demo
Mark Harris - CUDA Debugging and Profiling Tools
Mark Harris - Optimizing Performance on NVIDIA GPUs, Fermi Update and Q&A
Chris Fluke - Swinburne Astrophysics GPU Projects
Paul McIntosh - Visualisation using the GPU Computing Processor

Windows HPC Server 2008

VPAC, in conjunction with Microsoft, has made available a presentation on Windows HPC Server 2008. This presentation was delivered by Microsoft to VPAC staff and users in September 2008, and is included here in the interest of VPAC's users.