Friday, January 22, 2010, Issue #5 - 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 International Highlights France: The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) and NVIDIA are co–hosting a seminar on 1/28/10 in Paris for finance professionals who want to learn how to implement fast, efficient Monte Carlo models on the CUDA architecture. See: http://www.nag.co.uk/Market/NAG_NVIDIA_Seminar.asp Japan: RIKEN, one of the most prestigious research institutes in Japan, is the site of an upcoming computing conference to be keynoted by NVIDIA CEO Jen–Hsun Huang. RIKEN conducts research across a wide range of fields, including physics, chemistry, medical science, biology, and engineering. The conference takes place on 1/28/10 – 1/29/10. See: https://reg-nvidia.jp/public/seminar/view/3 Taiwan: A GPU Computing seminar is being held on 1/22/10 at the National Taiwan University. This event provides an opportunity for government agencies, universities, and research institutions to showcase their work and meet other professionals who are using CUDA. See: http://www.nvidia.com.tw/object/gpu_computing_seminar_tw.html CUDA APPS "Rugged Implementation" of CUDA GPUs GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, has announced the GRA111 high–performance graphics board, the first "rugged implementation of a CUDA–capable GPU." The GRA111 is the initial member of GE Fanuc’s planned family of CUDA–enabled products. These products are expected to revolutionize military and aerospace embedded computing by bringing a supercomputing capability to applications/environments that require leading–edge processing, such as radar, signals intelligence, and video surveillance and interpretation.See: http://is.gd/6MEMx CUDA Education Call for Papers! – HotPar Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism. Papers due 1/24/10. Go to: http://is.gd/5MjRQ – Dependable Multi–Core Computing Workshop. Papers due 2/15/10. Contact:    Bernhard.Fechner@FernUni–Hagen.de. Graduate Fellowship Program NVIDIA’s Graduate Fellowship Program applications are due 2/3/10. Learn more: http://is.gd/5WqTZ Fermi Webinar See the presentation on CUDA/Fermi made by NVIDIA’s Sumit Gupta on 1/13/10: http://www.nvidia.com/content/webinar/Tesla_Fermi_Webinar_Jan13_10_v1_1.pdf CUDA and GPU Computing Courses Over 295 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: Monte Carlo Simulation of Photon Migration This paper demonstrates that the GPU–based Monte Carlo simulation is a practical solution for data analysis in a wide range of diffuse optical imaging applications, such as human brain or small–animal imaging. The code was implemented with CUDA C, achieving an acceleration ratio of above 300. Citation: Qianqian Fang and David A. Boas, "Monte Carlo Simulation of Photon Migration in 3D Turbid Media Accelerated by GPUs," Optics Express 17, 20178–20190(2009). See: http://is.gd/6MwqE Submit Your Work Have a CUDA–related paper or research? Show it on CUDA Zone. Submission form: http://is.gd/6hxx2 CUDA RESOURCES Check out this real–time "Mandelbrot zoomer" in SSE assembly and CUDA C created by Thanassis Tsiodras: http://awe.sm/27AEa . Trivia fact: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, known as the father of fractal geometry, is a dual French and American citizen. 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. If you would like to stop receiving emails from NVIDIA, click here to unsubscribe. 2701 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95050 Copyright © 2010 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved.