CUDA GPGPU Parallel Computing Newsletter - Issue 53

This week’s Spotlight is on Kang Zhang, a PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His interests include GPU-accelerated biomedical imaging. Here’s an extract from our interview:

NVIDIA: Kang, what are you working on at Johns Hopkins?
Kang: My current research focuses on interventional Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) technology for microsurgery.

Conventionally, visualization during microsurgery is realized with a surgical microscope, which limits the surgeon’s field of view and causes limited depth perception of micro-structures and tissue planes beneath the surface. Such issues commonly exist in many kinds of microsurgeries, such as ophthalmic surgery, neurological surgery and otolaryngologic surgery.

OCT is a new imaging modality capable of non-invasive 3D micrometer-resolution imaging, which makes it highly suitable for guiding microsurgery. As part of my PhD work, I developed an ultra-high-speed, real-time OCT imaging system using a hardware-software platform based on GPU technology.

NVIDIA: What are some advantages of working with CUDA?

Kang: Thanks to CUDA’s great parallel processing ability, we achieved a >20X speedup of OCT image reconstruction and demonstrated the first GPU-based real-time 4D (3D + time) OCT system.

NVIDIA: As computing becomes faster, what can we look forward to?

Kang: More GPUs will be embedded in existing computer systems as compact, cost-effective and green supercomputing engines.

- Read the complete interview here

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The Future of Computing Performance: Game Over or Next Level?

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A new report by the National Research Council concludes that “the end of dramatic exponential growth in single-processor performance marks the end of the dominance of the single microprocessor in computing. The era of sequential computing must give way to a new era in which parallelism is at the forefront.”
- See: http://bit.ly/hYqH2H

International Exascale Software Project
The goal of IESP is develop a plan for producing a new software infrastructure capable of supporting exascale applications. The most recent meeting was held on Apr. 6-7 in San Francisco.
- See: http://bit.ly/huWMlE

UGENE Wins Award
UniPro7’s UGENE won an award for the "Efficient Use of GPU Accelerators to Solve Large Problems," sponsored by T-Platforms. UGENE is a free cross-platform genome analysis suite optimized by GPUs.
- See: http://ugene.unipro.ru/index.html

HOOMD-Blue v0.9.2
HOOMD-Blue performs general-purpose particle dynamics simulations on a single workstation, taking advantage of GPUs to attain better performance. New release supports CUDA 4.0.
- See: http://gpgpu.org/2011/04/06/hoomd-blue-0-9-2

PGI 2011 v11.4
New release supports GPU-related features, including expanded support for libm math routines.
- See: http://www.pgroup.com/support/new_rel.htm

Reminders
- CUDA Toolkit 4.0 RC2 is publicly available: http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads
- GTC 2011 Call for Submissions is open until May 3: www.nvidia.com/object/call_for_submissions.html

NEW: Each week we highlight sessions from GTC 2010 and SC10. Here are our picks for this week:

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      Fast GPU Preconditioning for Fluid Simulations in Film Production (GTC 10)
      Dan Bailey - Double Negative
      http://www.nvidia.com/content/GTC-2010/pdfs/2239_GTC2010.pdf

      CFD, GPU Implementation of Weather Prediction Code on TSUBAME (SC10)
      Takayuki Aoki - Tokyo Tech
      http://www.nvidia.com/content/PDF/sc_2010/theater/Aoki_SC10.pdf

Sony Computer Entertainment seeks a GPGPU programmer to develop next-generation game audio, signal processing and compute solutions. Experience in real-time audio signal processing and coding, software synthesis, embedded systems a plus.
- See: http://playstation.taleo.net/careersection/sceaexternal1/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=17882

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NVIDIA’s Kimberly Powell blogged this week about BioIT World:

"The BioIT World Expo took place in Boston last week. The event brings together approximately 2000 life sciences, pharmaceutical, clinical, healthcare, and IT professionals from around 30 countries to share information and discuss the technologies that are driving biomedical research and drug development.

The bioscience community is tasked with perhaps some of life’s biggest challenges, from drug discovery to developing an overall better understanding of the human body. In these quests, computation is a researcher’s most important tool, enabling them to run larger and more accurate simulations as well as test a wider range and variety of laboratory-style scenarios.

These two worlds converge in the field of bio-IT, and it is in this field where the parallel processing power of NVIDIA GPUs is having a profound effect.”

- Read the full blog post: http://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/04/gpu-powered-best-in-show-winners-celebrate-at-bio-it-world/

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- Meetup: Brisbane GPU Users

April 21, 2011, 6:00 pm, Brisbane, Australia

http://www.meetup.com/Brisbane-GPU-Users/events/17151901/

- Meetup: HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of New York

April 28, 2011, 6:00 pm, New York, New York

http://www.meetup.com/HPC-GPU-Supercomputing-Group-of-New-York/

- Meetup: HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Silicon Valley

May 2, 2011, 6:00 pm, Mountain View, Calif.

http://www.meetup.com/HPC-GPU-Supercomputing-Group-of-Silicon-Valley/

- Meetup: HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Boston

May 4, 2011, 6:00 pm, Cambridge, Mass.

http://www.meetup.com/HPC-GPU-Supercomputing-Group-of-Boston/

- NEW: Meetup: HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Seattle

May 9, 2011, 5:00 pm, Seattle, Wash.

http://www.meetup.com/HPC-GPU-Supercomputing-Group-of-Seattle/

- NEW: Meetup: Sydney GPU Users

May 12, 2011, 6:00 pm, Sydney, Australia

http://www.meetup.com/Sydney-GPU-Users/events/17127627/

- NEW: Meetup: HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of New Mexico

June 8, 2011, 6:30 pm, Santa Fe, New Mexico

http://www.meetup.com/HPC-GPU-Supercomputing-Group-of-New-Mexico/events/17220862/

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- Fluid-Structure Interaction 2011: Workshop on the Advances in Computational Methods

April 27-29, 2011, Singapore

Note: Session by Srinivas Kodiyalam, NVIDIA, on April 29

www.fsi-singapore.com/

May 2011

- CUDA/OpenCL Training - Microsoft, Acceleware

May 2-5, 2011, Calgary, Canada

http://acceleware.com/calgary-may2

- GPU Computing Overview - Microsoft, Acceleware, NVIDIA

May 3, 2011, 9:00 am-5:00 pm, Boston, Mass.

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032479956&Culture=en-US

- GPU Computing Overview - Microsoft, Acceleware, NVIDIA

May 4, 2011, 9:00 am-5:00 pm, New York, New York

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032479952&Culture=en-US

- CUDA/OpenCL Training - Microsoft, Acceleware

May 10-13, 2011, Mountain View, Calif.

http://acceleware.com/mountainview-may10

- GTC Workshop Singapore

May 12, 2011, Singapore

Note: The GPU Technology Conference enters South East Asia with this new GTC Workshop. Co-sponsored by NVIDIA and NOVATTE.

http://www.novatte.com/press-room/gtc2011/

- Spring CUDA Training by Tech-X Corporation

May 16-18, 2011, Boulder, Colo.

Note: To be led by Dr. Peter Messmer, Dr. Paul Mullowney and Dr. Michael Galloy

http://www.txcorp.com/products/GPULib/cuda_training/index.php

- Parallel CFD Conference (ParCFD 2011)

May 16-20, 2011, Barcelona, Spain

Note: Tutorial by Tom Reed, NVIDIA, on May 16

http://parcfd2011.bsc.es/

- Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology - IEEE

May 16, 2011, Anchorage, Alaska

Note: Held with International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium

www.hicomb.org/

- NEW: GTC Workshop Taiwan

May 19, 2011, Taipei, Taiwan

Note: Sanford Russell, NVIDIA, to present

http://weekly.ithome.com.tw/seminar/20110519nvidia/in1.html

- GPU Computing Overview - Microsoft, Acceleware, NVIDIA

May 19, 2011, 9:00 am-5:00 pm, San Francisco, Calif.

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032479960&Culture=en-US

- GPU Computing Overview - Microsoft, Acceleware, NVIDIA

May 20, 2011, 9:00 am-5:00 pm, Chicago, Ill.

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032479956&Culture=en-US

- GPGPU Computing for Scientific Applications

May 23-27, 2011, Cordoba, Argentina

Held in FaMAF, National University of Cordoba

Note: Sessions by Robert Strzodka (MPI-Saarbrücken) and Ross Walker (SDSC, CUDA Fellow)

www.famaf.unc.edu.ar/grupos/GPGPU/EscuelaGPGPU2011

- NAFEMS World Congress: Promoting Adoption of HPC for Engineering Simulation

May 23-26, 2011, Boston, Mass.

Note: Session by Stan Posey, NVIDIA, on May 25

http://www.nafems.org/congress

- LS-DYNA 8th European Users Conference

May 23-24, 2011, Strasbourg, France

Note: Paper and talk by Stan Posey and Srinivas Kodiyalam, NVIDIA

http://www.lsdynaeuc.alyotech.fr/

- CUDA/OpenCL Training - Microsoft, Acceleware

May 24-27, 2011, Houston, Tex.

http://acceleware.com/houston-may24

- NEW: GPU Technology Summit - Israel

May 30, 2011, Tel Aviv, Israel

http://sagivtech.com/gpu-technology-summit.htm

- Computer Simulations on GPU - International Symposium

May 30-June 1, 2011, Mainz, Germany

Note: Axel Koehler, NVIDIA, to present

www.cond-mat.physik.uni-mainz.de/~weigel/GPU2011/home/

June 2011

- 25th International Conference on Supercomputing

June 1-4, 2011, Tucson, Ariz.

http://ics11.cs.arizona.edu/

- Intelligent Vehicles Conference - IEEE

June 5-9, 2011, Baden-Baden, Germany

Note: Session by Jeff Ota, NVIDIA, on Parallel Computing in Intelligent Vehicles

www.mrt.uni-karlsruhe.de/iv2011/

- Internat’l. Supercomputing Conference (ISC)

June 19-23, 2011, Hamburg, Germany

Note: Visit NVIDIA, booth #630

www.supercomp.de/isc11/Take-Part/Call-for-Papers

- CUDA/OpenCL Training - Microsoft, Acceleware

June 20-23, 2011, Cambridge, Mass.

http://acceleware.com/boston-jun20

- Internat’l. Conference on Computer Systems and Applications

June 27-30, 2011, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

http://aiccsa2011.hpcl.gwu.edu/

July – Dec. 2011

- 2011 World Congress on Engineering (WCE 2011)

July 6-8, 2011, London, England

http://www.iaeng.org/WCE2011/ICPDC2011.html

- Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)

July 12-16, 2011 Dublin, Ireland

www.sigevo.org/gecco-2011/index.html

- World Congress in C.S., Computer Engineering, Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP’11)

July 18-21, 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada

www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws

- Application Accelerators in High Performance Computing (SAAHPC 2011)

(Call for papers: May 6)

July 19-21, 2011, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee

http://illinois.edu/lb/article/2100/45663

- Advanced Numerical Methods on GPUs

Mini-symposium at ENUMATH 2011

Sept. 5-9, Univ. of Leicester, Leicester, UK

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/mathematics/research/enumath2011
/minisymposia

- Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2011)

Sept. 11-14, 2011, Torun, Poland

Note: Scientific Computing with GPUs tutorial, incl. session by Tim Schroeder, NVIDIA

http://ppam.pl/tutorials/21

- Geospatial Summit

Sept. 13-14, 2011, Herndon, Virginia

http://cfp.foseinstitute.org/gis2011

- SPIE Conference on High-Performance Computing in Remote Sensing

Sept. 19-22, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

http://spie.org/rs11

- SEG (Society of Exploration Geophysicists) Annual Meeting

Sept 18-23, 2011, San Antonio, Tex.

(Deadline for abstracts: April 6, 2011)

http://www.seg.org/events/annual-meeting/sanantonio2011/am2011techprogram

- GPU Technology Conference (GTC 11)

Oct. 11-14, 2011, San Jose, Calif.

www.gputechconf.com

- Innovative Parallel Computing (InPar 2011)

Oct. 10-11, 2011, San Jose, Calif.

Note: Co-located with GPU Technology Conference

http://innovativeparallel.org/

- Los Alamos National Lab's Accelerated HPC Symposium

Oct. 13-14, 2011, San Jose, Calif.

Note: Co-located with GPU Technology Conference

http://www.lanl.gov/conferences/AHPCS/

- SC11

Nov. 12-18, 2011, Seattle, Wash.

http://sc11.supercomputing.org/?pg=techprogram.html

(To list an event, email: cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com)

CUDA Downloads	back to the top
– Download CUDA: www.nvidia.com/getcuda – Download Parallel Nsight: www.nvidia.com/object/parallel-nsight.html – Get developer guides and docs: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/gpucomputing.html

CUDA Registered Developer Program

– Sign up: www.nvidia.com/paralleldeveloper

CUDA GPUs

– List of CUDA-enabled GPUs: www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_gpus.html

CUDA Libraries Performance Report

– Download: http://bit.ly/ehR5az

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 21: http://is.gd/Fj56gf
– 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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