MRSC 2011 - Bristol, UK

Monday 11 - Wednesday 13 April, 2011

The fourth International Many-core and Reconfigurable Supercomputing Conference, MRSC 2011, was held on 11-13 April in Bristol, UK, building on the success of previous MRSC's at Queen's University Belfast, Zuse Institute, Berlin and Caspur, Rome.

We were delighted to have over 130 attendees and a range of excellent workshops and presentations over the three days of the conference.

Slides from the presentations and photos of the conference are available on this website on the Programme page.



University of Bristol 11-13 April, 2011


MRSC 2011

  • The conference will be held in the Queen's building, in the University of Bristol, one of the UK's leading high performance computing centres.
  • The first day of the conference includes half-day tutorials on Cuda, OpenCL, PGI's GPU tools and Convey's reconfigurable technology
  • An exciting range of leaders from the field will be presenting their work, including two keynote speeches sponsored by LSCITS:
  •   Dr Krisztian Flautner, VP of Research & Development at ARM, who will talk about energy-efficient many-core computing
  •   Professor Satoshi Matsuoka from Tokyo Tech, who will talk about how the GPU-based supercomputer 'Tsubame 2.0', ranked at #4 in the Top500 at 1.2 PetaFLOPS, can be used for high-resolution natural disaster simulations, a very timely topic given recent events in Japan.
  •   Professor David May, University of Bristol, and CTO and Co-founder of XMOS will give the conference closing address about novel, energy-efficient multi-core technologies
  • The call for papers and posters for submission to the conference is now closed and our student fellowship quota has also been filled.
  • For the first time at MRSC it is planned to publish selected papers from the conference in a journal. A special edition of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, with the theme of Novel Architectures in HPC will be published later in 2011 and will include selected papers from MRSC. The Call is now open.


Conference events

  • Monday 11 April, 6pm-8pm - Nvidia-sponsored drinks reception at the award-winning @Bristol, a hands on science centre, on Bristol's harbourside. This will include several exciting new Nvidia demos alongside the @Bristol exhibits.
  • Tuesday 12 April, 7pm-10pm - conference dinner on board the world famous SS Great Britain Brunel's famous and innovative flagship, moored in Bristol harbour.