CUDA: WEEK IN REVIEW

CUDA SPOTLIGHT
GPU-Accelerated Motion Graphics This week’s Spotlight is on Steve Forde of Adobe. Steve is responsible for Adobe’s visual effects product line, including Adobe After Effects in Creative Suite 6, which offers a new GPU-accelerated 3D ray-traced compositing workflow capability. Read our interview with Steve Forde.
CUDA NEWS
GTC 2013 Registration Is Open Registration is open for the GPU Technology Conference (GTC), March 18-21, 2013, San Jose, California. GTC 2013 will deliver valuable content for scientists and researchers, and is expanding to include additional areas where the GPU is central to innovation, such as computer graphics, cloud graphics, game development and mobile computing. Secure your spot today. Special 10% discount code for newsletter readers: GM10CD Registration Sessions and Tutorials Travel and Hotels Call for Posters Try Tesla K20 Speed up your application with NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU Accelerators. Built on the Kepler compute architecture, Tesla K20 offers innovative technologies like Dynamic Parallelism and Hyper-Q to boost performance and power efficiency. Special offer: Purchase a K20 GPU Accelerator by Jan. 27 and receive free GTC 2013 pass (US only). GPU test drive: Take a free and easy test drive to see how Tesla K20 can accelerate your code. Right Around the Corner… Register today for these interesting events coming up in the New Year: CUDA in Chicago Jan. 29-Feb. 1, 2013, Chicago, Illinois Four-day course by Acceleware Designed for programmers looking to develop skills in writing and optimizing applications that fully leverage the multi-core processing capabilities of GPUs. Titan Users and Developers Workshop (West Coast) Jan. 29-31, 2013, Santa Clara, Calif. Three-day workshop by Oak Ridge Leadership Computational Facility (OLCF) An intense hands-on training on Titan, the world’s fastest supercomputer. Topics will cover everything from utilization of Oak Ridge resources to advanced GPGPU programming techniques. Signal Processing & Communications Algorithms Using GPU Computing in MATLAB Jan. 31, 2013 Webinar by MathWorks This webinar will teach you how to leverage the computing power of GPUs to accelerate signal processing and communications applications in MATLAB, with minimal programming effort.
GPU THESIS WATCH
Title: All-Pairs Shortest Path Algorithms Using CUDA Author: Jeremy M. Kemp, Durham University Advisor: Professor Iain Stewart Dept: School of Engineering & Computing Sciences
CUDA JOB OF THE WEEK	back to the top
The Honda Research Institute USA seeks talented candidates to conduct research on vision-based driver assistance systems. Requirements include strong skills in C/C++ and CUDA. Contact fulltime@honda-ri (dot) com (with job #P11F05 in subject line).
FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE	back to the top
New on the Parallel Forall Blog: How to Overlap Data Transfers in CUDA Fortran, by Greg Ruetsch How to Optimize Data Transfers in CUDA Fortran, by Greg Ruetsch How to Optimize Data Transfers in CUDA C++, by Mark Harris (Subscribe to the Parallel Forall RSS feed)
New on the NVIDIA blog: How Gaming PCs Can Help In the Battle Against AIDS, by George Millington GPU Startup Story: Fuzzy Logix Brings Clarity to Analytics, by Gary Rainville
GPU MEETUPS	back to the top
Find a GPU Meetup in your location, or start one up. Upcoming meetings include: Paris, Dec. 18 New York, Dec. 20 Paris, Jan. 15 Brisbane, Jan. 24 New York, Jan. 24 Silicon Valley, Jan. 28
CUDA CALENDAR	back to the top
4-Day CUDA Course (Acceleware) Jan. 29-Feb. 1, 2013, Chicago, Illinois Instructor: Dr. Kelly Goss Titan Users and Developers Workshop (West Coast) Jan. 29-31, 2013, Santa Clara, Calif. Hands-on training on Titan, the world’s fastest supercomputer Signal Processing & Communications Algorithms Using GPU Computing (Webinar) Jan. 31, 2013 Instructor: Kirthi Devleker, MathWorks HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference Feb. 7-8, 2013, Stanford, Calif. Open to the public 4-Day CUDA Course - Oil & Gas (Acceleware) March 12-15, 2013, Houston, Texas Instructor: Dr. Kelly Goss GPU Tech Conference (GTC 2013) March 18-21, 2013, San Jose, Calif. Call for Posters Developer Tutorials Session Samples (To list an event, email: cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com)
CUDA RESOURCES	back to the top
GPU-Accelerated Apps List of 200+ popular GPU-accelerated scientific and research applications. CUDA Documentation The new CUDA documentation site includes release notes, programming guides, manuals and code samples. NVIDIA Tesla K20 and K20X NVIDIA Tesla K20 and K20X GPU Accelerators are now available. CUDA Education NEW Coursera Course NEW Udacity Course NEW Book: CUDA Programming, by Shane Cook NVIDIA Developer Forums The new NVIDIA developer forums are now live. Join the new online community to learn from other developers and share your experience. CUDA Consulting Training, programming, and project development services are available from CUDA consultantsaround the world. To be considered for inclusion on list, email:cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com (with CUDA Consulting in subject line). GPU Computing on Twitter For daily updates about GPU computing and parallel programming, follow @gpucomputing on Twitter. Downloads CUDA 5 CUDA 5 survey Nsight CARMA