Welcome to CUDA: WEEK IN REVIEW
A news summary for the worldwide CUDA, GPGPU and parallel programming community. |
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CUDA SPOTLIGHT |
GPUs and High Energy Physics
This week's Spotlight is on Valerie Halyo of Princeton University. Valerie and her team perform research in the area of High Energy Physics (HEP), related to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.
Read our our interview with Valerie Halyo. |
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CUDA NEWS |
New CUDACasts
In the debut episode of CUDACasts, we demonstrated how to install the CUDA Toolkit on Windows. Now we show you how to accelerate code on the GPU with CUDA and with OpenACC.
CUDACast 2: Your First CUDA C Program | CUDACast 3: Your First OpenACC Program
New Platform for Geospatial Intelligence
NVIDIA announced the GeoInt (Geospatial Intelligence) Accelerator platform to showcase the power of GPUs in defense. Learn more about GeoInt.
See the Future of Visual Computing at SIGGRAPH
If you plan to attend SIGGRAPH (July 22-25, Anaheim, Calif.), be sure to drop by the NVIDIA booth. Highlights include the Visual Computing Theater, featuring Pixar, Weta, Applied Materials, Honda R&D and others. Talks are every 30 minutes and will be streamed live. See schedule and streaming info.
GPU-Accelerated Adobe Anywhere Available Now
Adobe is shipping its new GPU-accelerated Adobe Anywhere collaborative video workflow solution, a key element in Adobe-recommended servers. Learn more about Adobe Anywhere.
GTC 2014 Call for Submissions Open
Call for Submissions for the GPU Technology Conference (March 24-27, 2014) is now open. If you’re doing innovative, ground-breaking work with GPUs, please submit a proposal.
On Tap for July-August
Summer Schools:
July 22-24: GPU Summer School (Univ. of Alicante): Alicante, Spain
July 22-26: CUDA Programming Course by Mike Giles: Oxford, UK (NEW)
July 29-Aug. 2: VSCSE Summer School: Via videoconference
Aug. 2-4: GPUs and Molecular Modeling (Univ. of Illinois): Urbana, Ill. (NEW)
Aug. 3-4: 2-Day CUDA Workshop by Kashif Rasul: Berlin, Germany (NEW)
Ongoing: Intro to Parallel Programming: Online, self-paced
Summer Trainings:
July 29-Aug. 1: CUDA Training by Acceleware: San Jose, Calif.
Summer Webinars:
July 25: ACEMD: High-Throughput Molecular Dynamics, G. De Fabritiis, M. Harvey, Acellera
July 30: GPU-Accelerated Computer Vision Using OpenCV and CUDA, A. Baksheev, Itseez
July 31: NMath Premium: GPU-Accelerated Math Libraries for .NET, P. Shirkey, T. Misfeldt, CenterSpace
Aug. 13: GPUs in the Film Visual Effects Pipeline, W. Braithwaite, NVIDIA (NEW)
Aug. 14: Beyond Real-time Video Surveillance Analytics with GPUs, S. Guler, intuVision (NEW)
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GPU THESIS WATCH |
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| Congrats to Patricia Sundin, Linkoping University, on her master's thesis on Adaptation of algorithms for underwater sonar data processing to GPU-based systems (Supervisors: Usman Dastgeer, Alexander Lundh; Examiner: Christoph Kessler). |
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NEW ON THE BLOG |
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Parallel Forall:
Prototyping Algorithms and Testing CUDA Kernels in MATLAB, by D. Armyr, D. Doherty, MathWorks
CUDACasts Episode #3: Your First OpenACC Program, by M. Ebersole
CUDACasts Episode #2: Your First CUDA C Program, by M. Ebersole
CUDACasts Episode #1:Installing CUDA on Windows, by M. Ebersole
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CUDA JOB OF THE WEEK |
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| Acutus Medical in San Diego, Calif. seeks application software engineer responsible for development of Windows software within the Acutus Medical System. CUDA experience a plus. |
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CUDA EDUCATION |
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Need a CUDA consultant? See list of worldwide CUDA trainers and consultants.
Want to improve your skills? Enroll in the open online course Intro to Parallel Programming.
Have CUDA questions? Check out NVIDIA DevTalk forums and Stack Overflow.
Require fast access to docs? Visit the CUDA doc library.
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CUDA CALENDAR |
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July
GPU Summer School (University of Alicante)
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July 22-24, 2013 Alicante, Spain |
CUDA Programming Course
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July 22-26, 2013, Oxford, UK
Presenter: Mike Giles |
ACEMD: High-throughput Molecular Dynamics with NVIDIA Kepler GPUs (Webinar)
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July 25, 2013, 9 am pacific
Presenters: Gianni De Fabritiis, Matt Harvey, Acellera |
4-Day CUDA Training (Acceleware)
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July 29-August 1, 2013, San Jose, Calif
Instructor: Dr. Kelly Goss |
VSCSE Summer School
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July 29-Aug. 2, 2013 (multiple locations via videoconference)
Instructors: Wen-mei Hwu, David Kirk, John Stratton |
GPU Technology Conference Japan
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July 30, 2013, Tokyo, Japan |
GPU-Accelerated Computer Vision Using OpenCV and CUDA (Webinar)
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July 30, 2013, 10 am pacific
Presenter: Anatoly Baksheev, Itseez |
NMath Premium: GPU-accelerated Math Libraries for .NET (Webinar)
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July 31, 2013, 10 am pacific
Presenters: Paul Shirkey, Trevor Misfeldt, CenterSpace Software |
August
GPU Programming for Molecular Modeling (NAMD & VMD)
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Aug. 2-4, 2013, Urbana, Illinois |
2-Day CUDA Workshop
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Aug. 3-4, 2013, Berlin, Germany
Presenter: Kashif Rasul, FU Berlin |
LAMMPS Users' Workshop and Symposiumv
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Aug. 7-8, 2013, Albuquerque, New Mexico |
GPUs in the Film Visual Effects Pipeline (Webinar)
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Aug. 13, 2013, 9 am pacific
Presenter: Wil Braithwaite, NVIDIA |
Beyond Real-time Video Surveillance Analytics with GPUs (Webinar)
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Aug. 14, 2013, 10 am pacific
Presenter: Dr. Sadiye Guler, intuVision
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September-October
2-Day CUDA Training (AccelerEyes)
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Sept. 2-3, 2013, Boston, Mass. |
GROMACS USA Workshop and Conference
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Sept. 13-15, 2013, Charlottesville, Virginia |
2-Day CUDA Training (AccelerEyes)
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Sept. 23-24, 2013, Washington, D.C |
4-Day CUDA Course (Acceleware)
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Sept. 24-27, 2013, Frankfurt, Germany |
AMBER Workshop 2013
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Oct. 7-11, 2013, Pernambuco, Brazil |
(To list an event, email: cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com) |
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CUDA RESOURCES |
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ABOUT CUDA |
CUDA® is a parallel computing platform and programming model invented by NVIDIA. It enables dramatic increases in computing performance by harnessing the power of the graphics processing unit (GPU). NVIDIA provides a complete toolkit for programming on the CUDA architecture, supporting standard computing languages such as C, C++ and Fortran. Send comments to cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com
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