CUDA: WEEK IN REVIEW

Welcome to CUDA: WEEK IN REVIEW, a news summary for the worldwide CUDA, GPGPU and parallel programming community.

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CUDA Pro Tip: Did you know that "texture objects" (a Kepler feature available in CUDA 5) are easier to use and higher performance than legacy CUDA texture references? Learn more in this Parallel Forall “Pro Tip” blog post.

CUDA SPOTLIGHT
GPU-Accelerated Diagnosis and Treatment for Heart Disease This week’s Spotlight is on Eldad Klaiman, a signal/image processing engineer at Volcano. Eldad works on an R&D team that develops software to assist physicians who treat coronary disease with devices such as wires, catheters and stents. Read our interview with Eldad Klaiman
CUDA NEWS
New at GTC 2013: In addition to sessions, tutorials and keynotes, GTC will offer three days of hands-on labs focused on GPU programming. Elemental + Kepler: Elemental announced support for Kepler-based Tesla GPU accelerators for its next-generation high-performance video processing systems. See press release and blog post. Update from PGI: PGI 2013 offers an all-new GNU-compatible C++ compiler, with support for OpenACC, CUDA 5, Tesla K20 and more. Upcoming CUDA Book: A new book on CUDA is on the way. The CUDA Handbook, intended for intermediate to advanced CUDA programmers, will be available for purchase by July. It is currently available as a “Rough Cut” on Safari Books Online, where readers can register to preview its content and submit feedback.
CUDA EDUCATION	back to the top
Intro to Parallel Programming Explore parallel programming for the first time or push your knowledge even further with Udacity’s Intro to Parallel Programming. Units 1-3 are online now, with units 4-7 rolling out weekly. You can start at any time. Top performers in the course are eligible for awards including NVIDIA GPUs and AWS EC2 credits. New CUDA Centers Ten new institutions are now CUDA Research Centers and CUDA Teaching Centers, bringing the total to 238 in 42 countries. New CUDA Research Centers include Baylor College of Medicine/Rice University; Technion; IIT Delhi; and University of Missouri. In addition, NVIDIA announced additional benefits for CUDA Centers, including discounts on Tesla Kepler GPU accelerators from preferred solution providers. Apply to become a CUDA Research Center | Apply to become a CUDA Teaching Center
CUDA JOB OF THE WEEK	back to the top
NVIDIA seeks a software QA engineer to join its CUDA qualification team and deliver CUDA drivers, libraries and runtime software for next generation GPUs for Apple products. Successful candidate will have a passion for GPU computing and the Mac platform.
NEW ON THE BLOGS	back to the top
Parallel Forall blog Developing Portable CUDA C/C++ Code with Hemi, by Mark Harris An Efficient Matrix Transpose in CUDA Fortran, by Greg Ruetsch Kepler Texture Objects Improve Performance and Flexibility, by Mike Clark NVIDIA blog NVIDIA, Elemental Bring Video Content to Millions, by Keith Wymbs 10 New CUDA Research and Teaching Centers Announced, by Chandra Cheij Why Computers Are Only Just Emerging as a Tool for Scientists, by Sumit Gupta
GPU MEETUPS	back to the top
Find a GPU Meetup in your location, or start one up. Upcoming meetings include: Silicon Valley, Feb. 25 New Mexico, Feb. 26 New York, Feb. 27 Boston, Feb. 28 Brisbane, Feb. 28 New York, March 6
CUDA CALENDAR	back to the top
February - March 2-Day CUDA Training (AccelerEyes)   Feb. 25-26, 2013, Houston, Texas Intro to CUDA + OpenACC Course   March 4-5, 2013, Hamburg, Germany Sponsored by Applied Parallel Computing LLC Contact: akomissarov@nvidia.com 2-Day CUDA Training (AccelerEyes)   March 4-5, 2013, Washington, DC CUDA\OpenACC Hands-on Course (Kiel University)   March 6-8, 2013, Kiel, Germany Contact: landreeva@nvidia.com CUDA\OpenACC Hands-on Course (Bremen\Oldenburg University)   March 11-13, 2013, Germany Contact: landreeva@nvidia.com 4-Day CUDA Course - Oil & Gas (Acceleware)   March 12-15, 2013, Houston, Texas Instructor: Dr. Kelly Goss HPC Advisory Council   March 13-15, 2013, Lugano, Switzerland OpenACC Hands-on Course (RWTH Aachen)   March 14, 2013, Aachen, Germany Contact: landreeva@nvidia.com GPU Tech Conference (GTC 2013)   March 18-21, 2013, San Jose, Calif. Special code for CUDA newsletter readers: GM10CD 2-Day CUDA Training (AccelerEyes)   March 25-26, 2013, Los Angeles, Calif. CUDA\OpenACC Spring School (Riga Tech University)   March 25-28, 2013, Riga, Latvia Contact: landreeva@nvidia.com April-May Programming on the GPU with CUDA Course (TU Delft)   April 26, 2013, Delft, Netherlands Open to public Instructors: Prof.dr.ir. C. Vuik and Ir. C.W.J. Lemmens 4-Day CUDA Course (Acceleware)   May 7-10, 2013, San Francisco, Calif. Instructor: Dr. Kelly Goss Intro to GPGPU and CUDA Programming (CINECA)   May 9-10, 2013, Bologna, Italy (In English) Intro to CUDA Programming (PRACE, BSC)   June 3-7, 2013, Barcelona, Spain (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 (PDF 402KB). GPU Test Drive Want to try Tesla K20 for free? Sign up here. CUDA Documentation The new CUDA documentation site includes release notes, programming guides, manuals and code samples. CUDA Online Courses Udacity Course Coursera Course NVIDIA Developer Forums Join us on the NVIDIA DevTalk forums to share your experience and learn from other developers. You can also ask questions on Stack Overflow, using the ‘cuda’ tag. 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 CUDA on the Web CUDA Spotlights CUDA Newsletters CUDA Zone GPU Test Drive GPUComputing.net GPGPU.org