CUDA: WEEK IN REVIEW

CUDA SPOTLIGHT

GPU-Accelerated Earthquake Simulations This week’s Spotlight is on Dr. Yifeng Cui, director of the High Performance GeoComputing Laboratory at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. The Lab was recently named a winner of the HPC Innovation Excellence Award by IDC. Read our interview with Yifeng Cui.

CUDA NEWS

The Creative Side of CUDA The Boston Cyberarts Gallery is featuring two works of art powered by CUDA. The displays are part of Collision19, a new media art show running until July 28. Dial-A-Style: An Algorithmic Portrait Studio, by Robert Gonsalves, allows visitors to create real-time digital self-portraits in a variety of artistic styles, from Impressionism to Cubism to Anime. Everything is Made of Atoms, by James Susinno and Mark Stock, constructs a dynamic real-time digital image of the viewer composed of thousands of falling and regenerating particles. GTC 2014 Call for Submissions Now Open Call for Submissions for NVIDIA’s 5th Annual GPU Technology Conference (March 24-27, 2014) is now open. If you’re doing innovative, ground-breaking work with GPUs in science, research, graphics, mobile, automotive, game development or cloud computing, please submit a proposal. Introducing… CUDACasts Check out CUDACasts, a brand new series of How To videos about CUDA and GPU Computing. Episode #1 covers Installing the CUDA Toolkit on Windows 7. Watch for future CUDACasts on the Parallel Forall blog. CUDA 5.5 RC Survey The CUDA team is seeking feedback on developers’ experiences with CUDA 5.5 RC (available now). Please take a few moments to fill out the survey and watch the CUDA 5.5 webinar replay. The Best of GTC 2013, Online GTC 2013 featured over 400 sessions on breakthroughs made with GPUs in science, technology, and industry. Experience it by visiting www.nvidia.com/gtc2013. New Biomolecular Simulation Appliance MetroCubo, a new GPU-based appliance running Acellera’s ACEMD bio-molecular simulation software, is now available in the U.S. from Silicon Mechanics. MetroCubo comes preinstalled and tested with ACEMD. Get Smarter This Summer! Summer Schools: July 3-5: HPC@LR Summer School (University of Montpellier 2): Montpellier, France July 8-12: PUMPS Summer School (Barcelona Supercomputing Center; UPC): Barcelona, Spain July 22-24: GPU Summer School (University of Alicante): Alicante, Spain July 29-Aug. 2: VSCSE Summer School: Multiple locations, via videocon July-August: Intro to Parallel Programming: Ongoing, self-paced Summer Trainings: July 8-9: CUDA Training by AccelerEyes: San Jose, Calif. July 29-Aug. 1: CUDA Training by Acceleware: San Jose, Calif. Summer Webinars: July 10: Intro to the CUDA Toolkit as an Application Build Tool, A. DeConinck, NVIDIA July 11: Uncovering the Elusive HIV Capsid with NAMD, VMD, J. Perilla, UIUC 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