Dear All

Looking forward to meeting you all at the NINTH OpenACC User Group Meeting @SC2018

When: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM CST (Note the time zone)

Where: Eddie Deen Ranch, 944 S Lamar St, Dallas, TX 75202

Snacks and drinks will be served.

Topics to discuss:

• How does the OpenACC user group function?

• Ron Caplan, "GPU-accelerating Established Science Applications with OpenACC: Experiences, Results, and Development Tips" Predictive Science (And another fun hands-on "Linux laptop + NVIDIA GPU: Running OpenACC codes using bumblebee and optirun/primusrun")

• Want to meet with AWS and Linux Academy group? They will be there at the event!!

• Stories and Experiences from recent OpenACC hackathon events (India- Bharat Kumar, Australia - Maciej Cytowski, Pawsey)

• Brief updates from current OpenACC users

• Would you like to sign up as an OpenACC mentor/instructor?

• How can we help you run an OpenACC event?

• OpenACC teaching materials and labs - *NEW* updates

• OpenACC specification update 2.7 and its current status - Michael Wolfe

• How to provide feedback to OpenACC specification?

• If you are an educator, look for a copy of ‘OpenACC for Programmers, Concept & Strategies’ edited by Sunita Chandrasekaran, Guido Juckeland that will be available at the usergroup venue

• Find profiler experts of TAU (Sameer Shende, Allen Malony); GCC-OpenACC (Thomas Schwinge), Appentra - (Manuel Arenaz, Rosa Vázquez Rogel) at the meetup.

For further questions, contact Sunita Chandrasekaran (schandra@udel.edu), Director of OpenACC User Adoption.

Excited to meet you all at the SC18 usergroup meeting!!!

To check out other related OpenACC events https://openacc.org/events/sc18

Cheers,

OpenACC Organization