Friday, January 15, 2010, Issue #4 - Newsletter Home WELCOME Welcome to this week´s issue of "CUDA: Week in Review." Questions or suggestions? Email us at cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com CUDA NEWS Tesla Bio Workbench for Biological Research NVIDIA has launched the CUDA–based Tesla Bio Workbench, which enables scientists to turn a PC into a "computational laboratory" capable of running complex bioscience codes in fields such as drug discovery and DNA sequencing. Read more: http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_bio_workbench.html CUDA Power in Russia The Applied Parallel Computing Research & Education Center in Russia now provides CUDA consulting, education, internships, and software development services. The Center is located in Dubna, an area known as the "Silicon Valley of Russia." Learn more: http://www.parallel-compute.com/ CUDA APPS Will Your Next Shampoo Be Developed Using GPUs? Temple University researchers are helping Procter & Gamble design better models for cleaning products, including shampoo. The researchers are using GPU–accelerated HOOMD (Highly Optimized Object Oriented Molecular Dynamics) simulation software, written by researchers at the Department of Energy´s Ames Laboratory to leverage CUDA–based GPUs. – Read about it: http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1263443092139.html – Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DhHUMrtmPc – Learn more about HOOMD: http://codeblue.umich.edu/hoomd-blue Science Magazine Highlights Vision Model Research from MIT, Harvard Researchers from MIT and Harvard have demonstrated a way to build better artificial visual systems using GPUs. "We made a powerful computing system that delivers over hundred fold speed–ups relative to conventional methods," said Nicolas Pinto, a PhD candidate at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. Pinto has co–authored a study with David Cox of the Visual Neuroscience Group at the Rowland Institute at Harvard. The research was highlighted in the Editor´s Choice column in the January 1, 2010 issue of Science Magazine. – Read about it: http://web.mit.edu/press/2009/visual-systems.html – See the Science Magazine column (subscription required): http://is.gd/6huX3 – Watch the video: http://vimeo.com/7945275 CUDA Education Graduate Fellowship Program NVIDIA´s Graduate Fellowship Program provides funding to Ph.D. students researching topics that will lead to major advances in the graphics and high–performance computing industries by leveraging the power of the GPU. Applications due by 2/3/10. Learn more: http://is.gd/5WqTZ Call for Papers! HotPar Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism. Papers due 1/24/10. Go to: http://is.gd/5MjRQ CUDA and GPU Computing Courses Over 290 universities are teaching CUDA and GPU Computing courses. See the list: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_university_courses.html CUDA ZONE New on CUDA Zone: Solving Quantum Chemistry Calculations with CUDA PetaChem´s TeraChem is a new quantum chemistry software application designed to run on NVIDIA GPUs in a 64–bit Linux OS environment. Accepting beta testers now. Read about it: http://is.gd/6hwqJ Submit Your Work Have a CUDA–related paper or research? Show it on CUDA Zone. Submission form: http://is.gd/6hxx2 CUDA RESOURCES Download the CUDA Toolkit 3.0 Beta here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html CUDA ON THE WEB – Follow CUDA & GPU Computing on Twitter: www.twitter.com/gpucomputing – Network with other developers at: www.gpucomputing.net – Learn more about CUDA on CUDA Zone: www.nvidia.com/cuda Send comments and suggestions to: cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com You are receiving this email because you have previously expressed interest in NVIDIA products and technologies. Click here to opt in specifically to CUDA: Week in Review. Feel free to forward this email to customers, partners, and colleagues. Copyright © 2010 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. 2701 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95050.