1. John Cavazos Assistant Professor University of Delaware CHiPS 2009 Welcome

2. 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

3. Sponsors

5. 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/

6. 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

7. Note to Students (cont’d) ► Motivation to talk to faculty ► Looking for students ► Good contact for grad school

8. Note to Students (cont’d) ► Attend all sessions! ► Considerate of roommate ► Don’t be Loud and Late ► Resist temptation to just talk to students

9. Note to speakers ► Resist temptation to mingle amongst yourselves! ► Approach students

10. Format of Presentations ► Ask Questions ► No stupid questions! ► Usual courtesy to ask after speaker’s presentation ► All presentations to be made available ► Speakers will present their story

11. 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

12. Program (Saturday) ► Earning a PhD ► HPC Research ► Designing parallel algorithms ► GPU research talks

13. Program (Sunday) ► HPC Hot Topics ► GPU Introduction ► Team Programming project ► Closing Keynote

14. Program (Monday) ► NCSA Tour ► Mitrion tutorial ► CHiPS ends

15. ► Working lunches ► Getting into and paying for grad school ► Resumes ► Dinner ► Today: Legends ► Tomorrow: Dos Reales ► Opportunities for networking! Lunches and Dinners

16. Packet Contents ► NCSA Information ► Opportunities ► Reimbursement Form ► Wireless Information

17. Final Motivation ► Last 10 years have been exciting ► Next 10 years predicted to be even more exciting! ► You are the future!

18. Thank You for Coming! ► Any Questions?