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Interview with Andre R. Brodtkorb, SINTEF |
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GTC 2011 — Save The Date! |
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GPUs for ANSYS Mechanical |
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This week’s spotlight is on Andre R. Brodtkorb. Andre is a scientist at SINTEF, a research organization in Norway, where he works on GPU acceleration and algorithm design. He also teaches GPU-related courses at the Norwegian School of Information Technology. His research interests include GPU/heterogeneous computing, simulation of partial differential equations (PDEs) and real-time visualization.
NVIDIA: Andre, please tell us a bit about yourself. |
Andre: I first started working with GPUs in 2005, when you could only use graphics APIs like OpenGL. At the University of Oslo, I wrote my master’s thesis on "A MATLAB Interface to the GPU," which was, to my knowledge, one of the first times the GPU was used with MATLAB.
Since then, I have been working on a lot of different applications of GPUs and parallel processing, including direct visualization and video surveillance. I recently completed my Ph.D. thesis - "Scientific Computing on Heterogeneous Architectures" - in which shallow water simulations played a central part. Shallow water simulations are extremely important in everything from tsunami warnings to simulation of storm surges and dam breaks, where processing speed is a critical factor. |
NVIDIA: How does GPU computing play a role in your research? |
Andre: At SINTEF, I work on a range of application areas that have strict demands for computational speed, typically real-time or faster-than-real-time. The GPU is a key piece of the puzzle to achieve these goals. Shallow water simulations, for example, can be used for both creating emergency action plans and for real-time simulation of an ongoing event. In both cases, you want high-quality results as fast as possible. A conventional CPU-based system is often not good enough, because it typically sacrifices quality. Using the GPU, on the other hand, you get high-quality results faster-than-real-time, providing a far better basis for important decisions. |
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- Read full interview in the NVIDIA blog: http://blogs.nvidia.com
- See Andre's GTC 2010 presentation: http://nvidia.fullviewmedia.com/gtc2010/0921-n-2102.html
- Watch YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbZBR-FjRwY
- For more info: http://babrodtk.at.ifi.uio.no/
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GTC 2011 — Save the Date! |
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GTC 2011 will take place October 11-14 in San Jose, California — bringing together scientists, researchers, engineers and developers for a week of innovation, learning and networking. Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Accelerated High Performance Computing (HPC) Symposium will be co-located with GTC 2011.
- For more info, see: www.gputechconf.com
New Book: GPU Computing Gems The first volume in a new series of books on parallel computing is now available. Edited by Professor Wen-mei Hwu of the University of Illinois and developed by Morgan Kaufmann in collaboration with NVIDIA, GPU Computing Gems offers practical techniques and real-world examples.
- For more info, see: http://mkp.com/gpu-computing-gems (Use code CUDA1 for 20% off through February 2011)
CUDA at the Academy Awards All five movies nominated for an Oscar in the Visual Effects category were created by studios using NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics solutions. The nominees are Inception (studio: DNeg), Iron Man 2 (studios: DNeg and ILM), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (studio: DNeg), Hereafter (studio: Scanline VFX) and Alice in Wonderland (studio: Sony Pictures Imageworks/SPI). The winner will be announced at the 83rd annual Academy Award ceremony on February 27, 2011.
- See the list: http://oscar.go.com/#category_visual-effects
Meet the Thalesians The Thalesians are a think tank of professionals with an interest in finance, mathematics, computer science and synergetics. The group is named after Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, a mathematician who is known as an early user of financial options. Originally based in London, the Thalesians are now expanding to New York. CUDA developers and enthusiasts are invited to attend the inaugural talk in New York by Dr. Gerald Hanweck, Jr., CEO of Hanweck Associates, on Wed., February 23. The topic is "Monte Carlo Methods in CUDA."
- Learn more about the Thalesians: http://www.thalesians.com/finance/index.php/Main_Page
- Join group and register for event: http://www.meetup.com/thalesians/calendar/16139760/
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NEW: Each week we highlight sessions from GTC 2010 and SC10. Here are our picks for this week, both by Jon Cohen, a member of the NVIDIA Research team: |
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Solving PDEs on Regular Grids with OpenCurrent (GTC 2010)
Jon Cohen - NVIDIA (pdf)
http://www.nvidia.com/content/GTC-2010/pdfs/2022_GTC_2010.pdf
GPU Computing for Computational Science (SC10)
Jon Cohen - NVIDIA (pdf)
http://www.nvidia.com/content/PDF/sc_2010/theater/Cohen_SC10.pdf
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NVIDIA is seeking product managers, technical marketing managers, product marketers and CUDA developers for the Tesla GPU computing business, which develops high-performance computing solutions to help scientists and engineers solve problems they could not solve before. The massively-parallel CUDA architecture has seen one of the fastest processor architecture adoptions in computing history. Coupling the power of CUDA with Project Denver, the upcoming CPU product line, NVIDIA is fundamentally transforming the computer. Location: Santa Clara, California.
- See: http://careers.nvidia.com (search on "CUDA")
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Performance Benefits of NVIDIA GPUs for ANSYS Mechanical –
Seminar/Webinar
Monte Carlo Methods in CUDA - The Thalesians
HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of New York Meetup
HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Boston Meetup
Workshop on General Purpose Processing on GPUs (with ASPLOS XVI)
GPU Computing Using Mathematica and CUDA - Webinar
GPU Computing Session, German Physical Society Conference
ASIM Workshop 2011 - ASIM and Technische Universitat Munchen (TUM)
SagivTech 3-Day CUDA Course
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April – July 2011
SagivTech 3-Day CUDA Course
Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology - IEEE
May 16, 2011, Anchorage, Alaska |
Note: Held with International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium |
http://www.hicomb.org/ |
25th International Conference on Supercomputing
Intelligent Vehicles Conference - IEEE
Internat'l. Supercomputing Conference (ISC)
Internat'l. Conference on Computer Systems and Applications
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
World Congress in C.S., Computer Engineering, Applied Computing
(WORLDCOMP’11)
Application Accelerators in High Performance Computing (SAAHPC 2011)
Ongoing
(To list an event, email: cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com) |
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CUDA GPU Computing Forum |
– Link to forum: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showforum=62 |
CUDA GPUs |
– List of CUDA-enabled GPUs: www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_gpus.html |
CUDA Libraries Performance Report |
– Download: http://bit.ly/ehR5az |
CUDA Downloads |
– Download CUDA Toolkit 3.2: http://bit.ly/aKCENp
– Download OpenCL v1.1 pre-release drivers and SDK code samples (Log in or
apply for an account)
– Download Parallel Nsight: www.nvidia.com/object/parallel-nsight.html
– Get developer guides and docs: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/gpucomputing.html |
CUDA on the Web |
– See previous issues of CUDA: Week in Review: http://is.gd/cBXbg
– Follow CUDA & GPU Computing on Twitter: www.twitter.com/gpucomputing
– Network with other developers: www.gpucomputing.net
– Stayed tuned to GPGPU news and events: www.gpgpu.org
– Learn more about CUDA on CUDA Zone: www.nvidia.com/cuda
– Check out the NVIDIA Research page: www.nvidia.com/research |
CUDA Recommended Reading |
– Kudos for CUDA: www.hpcwire.com/features/Kudos-for-CUDA-97889444.html
– Supercomputing for the Masses, Part 20: http://is.gd/f9o6o
– CUDA books: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_books.html |
CUDA Recommended Viewing |
– Third Pillar of Science: www.nvidia.com/object/race-for-better-science.html |
– GTC 2010 presentations: www.nvidia.com/gtc |
– SC10 presentations: www.nvidia.com/object/sc10_theater.html |
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