OpenACC User Group Kick-off Meeting

Fernanda Foertter (ORNL), Guido Juckeland (HZDR, Germany) and Sunita Chandrasekaran (UDEL) in coordination with OpenACC President, Duncan Poole are creating an OpenACC User Group. 

We will have our first kick-off meeting at Salt Lake City during SC16. Given your interests in OpenACC via workshops, papers, hackathons, we would like to invite you to attend this kick-off meeting. 

We will also be giving away the newly published book on Parallel Programming with OpenACC, 1st Edition Edited by Rob Farber http://store.elsevier.com/Parallel-Programming-with-OpenACC/Rob-Farber/isbn-9780124103979/

Kindly register ASAP if you would like to attend this meetup https://www.eventbrite.com/e/openacc-user-group-kick-off-meeting-tickets-29084627905

Topics to discuss (further ideas welcome!!) 

- Soliciting scientific codes that can be ported to OpenACC

- Soliciting benchmark codes that can be used for stress testing hardware, contributing to SPEC ACCEL consoritum, https://www.spec.org/accel/

- User group playing a vital role in driving the OpenACC standard/specification 

- Running hackathons and hands-on tutorials in our respective locations 

- Running workshops co-located with major conferences like SC, ISC, IPDPS, PPoPP 

- Running OpenACC booth at the upcoming SCs

Please feel free to bring up other topics you may want to during the meet-up. 

Note the time zone. Wine and appetizer will be served. 

Looking forward to seeing you at the event!!

Cheers

Sunita, Fernanda, Guido and Duncan Poole