Friday, January 8, 2010, Issue #3 - Newsletter Home WELCOME Happy New Year and welcome to the third issue of "CUDA: Week in Review." Questions or suggestions? Email us at cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com CUDA NEWS CUDA at CES Las Vegas–based CES (Consumer Electronics Show) is one of the hottest consumer technology events on the planet. CUDA is at CES in full force this week as NVIDIA demonstrates new mainstream apps on the CUDA architecture, including: – Mirics FlexiTV – Software TV tuner – Motion DSP vReveal HD – Real–time hi–def video enhancement – Muvee Reveal, Netbook Edition – Photo, video and audio creation tool optimized for ION GPUs – Nik Tech Demo – Photo editing NVIDIA is also showing these cool examples of how CUDA acceleration benefits the consumer: – ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre with SimHD – DVD upscaling to near–HD quality – CyberLink MediaShow 5 – Photo face tagging, video editing and media conversion – CyberLink Power Director 7 – Video editing – Roxio Creator – Media conversion CUDA APPS The Making of Avatar As James Cameron´s Avatar takes the world by storm, visual effects company Weta Digital reflects on the creation process, saying: "The complexity of Avatar motivated us to think about rendering differently." Read the TG Daily article to learn how innovation from Weta and NVIDIA made a difference: http://shar.es/aU88Z New Project on Google Code Now you can run your CUDA program on a multi–core CPU using "gpuocelot" via a new project on Google Code. Read the VizWorld.com article here: http://bit.ly/6UnPo2 Ingrain's Digital Rock Physics Lab A new video on YouTube from Ingrain shows the fractional flow of oil and water in porous media with speed ups from CUDA GPUs. Check it out here: http://is.gd/5xEQR GIS Systems Help Cities Be More Responsive City planners turn to parallel processing and GIS (geo info systems) for fast emergency response and crime prevention. Learn more here: http://is.gd/5L1mP CUDA Education Call for Papers! – GPGPU Workshop. Papers due 1/15/10. Go to: http://is.gd/5SbAX – HotPar Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism. Papers due 1/24/10. Go to: http://is.gd/5MjRQ Webinar on "Fermi" – Next–Gen CUDA Architecture NVIDIA´s Sumit Gupta will present a live webinar on the new Tesla GPU Compute solutions built on "Fermi." Wed., 1/13/10, 10am pst. Register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/503890819 Acceleware, Colfax Offer 2–Day CUDA Training Courses Jan. 2010 and Feb. 2010, Sunnyvale, CA. Topics include: Overview of GPU Computing; Memory Allocation and Memory Transfers; Data-Parallel Architectures. Sign up here: www.acceleware.com/index.cfm/cuda-training/2010sunnyvale/ CUDA ZONE PAPERS New on CUDA Zone: Visualization of Cosmological Simulations Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have implemented a system that uses hierarchical level–of–detailing for the results of cosmological simulations in order to display visually accurate results without loading in the full dataset (containing over 10 billion points). Authors: Szalay, Springel, Lemson. See it here: http://is.gd/5JcM4 Submit Your Work Have a CUDA–related paper or research? Show it on CUDA Zone. Here is the submission form: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html#state=formOpen CUDA RESOURCES – CUDA Toolkit 3.0 Beta Now Available. Download it here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html – TechRadar: "NVIDIA´s CUDA/Fermi architecture explained." Read it here: http://techradar.com/657489 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 from 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 © 2009 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. 2701 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95050.