WELCOME |
Welcome to this week’s issue of "CUDA: Week in Review." Questions or suggestions? Email us at cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com |
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CUDA NEWS |
Folding@home |
Did you know you can help medical research by running a piece of software on your computer? Stanford University’s Folding@home is an example of a “distributed computing project” focused on understanding how diseases work. Simply put, distributed computing means that different parts of a program are processing simultaneously on multiple, networked computers. People around the world have downloaded the Folding@home software to collectively help create the equivalent of a powerful supercomputer. Using this “volunteer power,” the researchers at Folding@home are able to more quickly simulate “protein folding” problems linked to diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Currently, over 400,000 CPUs and GPUs worldwide are contributing to Folding@home. Here’s an interesting fact: About 15% of the systems involved in Folding@home are GPU-based, yet GPUs contribute approximately 90% of the computing power.
– Watch this YouTube video to see an inspiring example of a Folding@home team: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIR_Adt8z0Y
– Read this excellent NPR blog entry titled "Folding A Protein From Your Easy Chair": http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2010/02/folding_a_protein_from_your_ea.html
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CUDA ZONE |
New on CUDA Zone: Radar Signal Processing with GPUs - Master’s Thesis |
Extract: "Radar signal processing algorithms place strong real-time performance demands on computer architectures. These algorithms have an inherent data-parallelism that allows for great performance on massively parallel architectures, such as GPUs. Recently, using GPUs for other than graphics processing has become a possibility through the CUDA and OpenCL architectures. This master’s thesis aims at evaluating the NVIDIA GeForce GT200 series GPU-architecture for radar signal processing applications." Citation: Jimmy Pettersson, Ian Wainwright; HPC, Sweden. See http://is.gd/9bvGE
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Submit Your Work |
CUDA Zone just posted its 1000th submission! Have a CUDA-related paper or research? Show it on CUDA Zone: http://is.gd/8G3E4 |
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CUDA JOBS (New feature!) |
Siemens Corporate Research |
Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, New Jersey is seeking interns at the BS, MS, and PhD levels in the area of medical image analysis. See more CUDA and GPU computing-related job postings here: http://is.gd/91IEu |
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CUDA Education |
New Book Review by John West of insideHPC |
John West of insideHPC reviewed "Programming Massively Parallel Processors," the new book by David Kirk and Wen-mei Hwu. West writes: "If you are new to parallel programming and have access to a Tesla GPU, this book is a fine place to start your education."
– Read the review: http://is.gd/9bBCs
– Buy the book: Elsevier or Amazon |
GPU Computing Webinars (CUDA C and OpenCL) - Open to the Public |
See current schedule: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/gpu_computing_online.html |
Call for Papers |
Symposium on Chemical Computations on GPGPUs. Abstracts due 4/5/10. See: http://illinois.edu/lb/article/2101/33709 |
Call for Participation: "GPU Computing Gems" |
Submissions are being accepted for "GPU Computing Gems." More info: http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1265140268552.html |
CUDA and GPU Computing Courses |
Over 305 universities are teaching CUDA and GPU Computing courses. See the list: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_courses_and_map.html |
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CUDA RESOURCES |
CUDA Toolkit |
Download here: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda_2_3_downloads.html |
New Developer Guides |
Download here: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/gpucomputing.html |
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CUDA ON THE WEB |
– 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
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