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Maximizing HPC Computation and Visual Analysis Workflow

Thursday, September 26, 2019

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Speaker: James Jeffers, Sr. Princial Engineer, Sr. Director, Advanced Rendering and Vizualization at Intel Corporation

Bio: Jim Jeffers, Sr. Principal Engineer and Sr. Director of Intel’s Advanced Rendering and Visualization team, leads the design and development of the open source rendering library family known as the Intel® oneAPI Rendering Toolkit (https://software.intel.com/oneAPI-rendering-toolkit).  This toolkit is used for generating animated movies, visual special effects, product design and scientific visualization. Jim joined Intel in 2008 and has co-authored 4 books on Intel Architecture parallel programming. Jim’s experience includes software design and technical leadership in high performance computing, graphics, digital television, and data communications.  Jim’s notable work prior to Intel includes development for the Tech Emmy winning virtual ‘First Down Line’ technology seen on live American football TV broadcasts.

 

Pizza will be available

Classroom and Business Building (CBB)
Location
The University of Houston Insperity Classroom and Business Building (CBB) Room 522, 4742 Calhoun Rd.
Cost
FREE for UH students and faculty & SHPCP members | $15 Community members
Contact
Martin Huarte Espinosa