CUDA: Week in Review
Wed, Nov. 17, 2010, Issue #42 - Newsletter Home
WELCOME
Welcome to CUDA: Week in Review, an online news summary for the worldwide CUDA and GPU computing community.
CONTENTS
CUDA SPOTLIGHT
In the Cloud: On Demand GPU Supercomputing from Amazon EC2
For the first time ever, enterprises and start-ups can access the supercomputing power of NVIDIA GPUs via the cloud - through a new service called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

Why it matters: Supercomputing is increasingly important for technological innovation in everything from medical research and product design to climate modeling and energy exploration. However, the upfront cost of systems has limited their use, especially at the early stages of a project when people want to try out new ideas. By making GPUs available through Amazon EC2, supercomputing will be available to more innovators earlier in the process.

Peter De Santis, general manager of Amazon EC2, comments: "We're excited to help our customers access the raw power of GPU technology and look forward to the innovation this will enable." See Amazon Web Services blog post: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/11/new-ec2-instance-type-the-cluster-gpu-instance.html
CUDA NEWS
CUDA Toolkit 3.2 Delivers up to 300% Performance Improvement
NVIDIA announced the production release of CUDA Toolkit 3.2, which provides significant performance increases, improved math libraries and advanced cluster management features, including an up to 300% performance improvement in the CUDA BLAS library (CUBLAS) – which is eight times faster than the latest Intel MKL (Math Kernel Library).
  - CUDA Toolkit 3.2 download: www.nvidia.com/getcuda
  - CUDA Toolkit 3.2 webinar (Nov. 23): www2.gotomeeting.com/register/887428835

Mathematica 8 Supports the GPU
Wolfram's Mathematica 8 harnesses GPU devices for general computations using CUDA. A range of Mathematica 8 GPU-enhanced functions are built-in for areas such as linear algebra, image processing, financial simulation and Fourier transforms.
  - Watch the video: www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-8/ (see segment 2:21-3:01)

GPU-Accelerated Statistics in MATLAB with Jacket v1.6
AccelerEyes released version 1.6 of the Jacket GPU programming platform for MATLAB. The new version delivers a new statistics library featuring functions common to life science, defense and financial computing applications.
  - See: www.accelereyes.com/products/compare

Supercomputing 2010
Upcoming events at this week's SC10 conference in New Orleans include:
      -    Scaling Hierarchical N-Body Simulations on GPU Clusters, Nov. 18
      -    Size Matters: Space/Time Tradeoffs to Improve GPGPU Apps Performance, Nov. 18
      -    Optimal Utilization of Heterogeneous Resources for Biomolecular Simulations, Nov. 18
      -    Disruptive Technologies for Ubiquitous High Performance Computing, Nov. 19

  - For wrap-up of SC10 news and presentations made on the NVIDIA booth,
    see: www.nvidia.com/sc10
CUDA CALENDAR
November 2010

– Supercomputing 2010 (SC10)
Nov. 13-19, New Orleans
The NVIDIA GPU Computing Theater at SC10 will feature talks by industry luminaries, scientists and developers. All conference attendees are invited to participate.
www.nvidia.com/sc10

– Paving the Road to Exascale - Mellanox (at SC10)
Nov. 17, 7:00 p.m., New Orleans
http://www.mellanox.com/sc10_event/index.php

– Best-in-Class FSI Solutions (webinar) - ACUSIM
Nov. 18, 5:30 a.m. pacific
http://is.gd/gLglY

– Training from CAPS
Nov. 23-25, Rennes, France
www.caps-entreprise.com

– Improve Time to Debug (webinar) - Allinea Software
Nov. 24-25. Contact: sales@alinea.com

– MATLAB Expo
Nov. 26, Tokyo
http://matlabexpo.com

– Call for Papers - IEEE/ACM Intl. Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
Papers deadline: Nov. 30
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ccgrid11/

December 2010

– CUDA and Advanced Image Processing - SagivTech
Dec. 12-14, Ramat Gan, Israel
www.sagivtech.com/24054.html

– UK GPU Computing Conference - Univ. of Cambridge
Dec. 13-14, Cambridge, UK
http://www.many-core.group.cam.ac.uk/ukgpucc2/

– SIGGRAPH Asia
Dec. 16-18, Seoul
www.siggraph.org/asia2010

2011

– Scientific Computing in the Americas: The Challenge of Massive Parallelism
Jan. 3-14, 2011, Valparaiso, Chile
www.bu.edu/pasi

– IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
May 16-20, 2011, Anchorage
www.ipdps.org

– Intelligent Vehicles Conference - IEEE
June 5-9, 2011, Baden-Baden, Germany
http://www.mrt.uni-karlsruhe.de/iv2011/

– Internat'l. Conference on Computer Systems and Applications
June 27-30, 2011, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
http://aiccsa2011.hpcl.gwu.edu/

Ongoing
– CUDA Certification: www.nvidia.com/certification
– GPU Computing Webinars: www.nvidia.com/webinars
– Training from EMPhotonics: www.emphotonics.com/services/cuda-training

(To list an event, email: cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com)
CUDA RESOURCES
GPU Technology Conference
– See presentations and keynotes from GTC 2010: www.nvidia.com/gtc
CUDA GPUs
– See list of CUDA-enabled GPUs: www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_gpus.html
CUDA and Parallel Nsight Overview
– See blog post and video: http://is.gd/gbGen
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)
– Get developer guides and docs: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/gpucomputing.html
CUDA and Academia
– Learn more at http://research.nvidia.com/
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
CUDA Recommended Reading
– Read Kudos for CUDA: www.hpcwire.com/features/Kudos-for-CUDA-97889444.html
– Read Supercomputing for the Masses, Part 20: http://is.gd/f9o6o
– Read CUDA books: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_books.html
About CUDA
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