CUDA: WEEK IN REVIEW

Welcome to CUDA: WEEK IN REVIEW

A news summary for the worldwide CUDA, GPGPU and parallel programming community.

CUDA Pro Tip: Use the NVIDIA Tools Extension (NVTX) library to add detailed CPU run-time data to the NVIDIA profiler timeline. Learn more in the Parallel Forall blog.

CUDA SPOTLIGHT

CUDA-Accelerated Genomics This week’s Spotlight is on Dr. Knut Reinert, a professor at Freie Universitat in Berlin, Germany. Knut and his team focus on the development of algorithms and data structures for the analysis of biomedical mass data. Read the interview with Knut | Enroll in Knut’s Oct. 22 webinar

CUDA NEWS

Tell Us Your CUDA Story At SC13, NVIDIA will highlight CUDA stories from around the world. If you are a CUDA developer, tell us how you are using CUDA in 140 characters or less. Your submission will be considered for display in the NVIDIA booth and/or on the NVIDIA website. Respond here by Oct. 11. New GPU-Accelerated Apps Check out the updated list of 240+ GPU-accelerated applications, from research and manufacturing to seismic processing and entertainment. Fast JPEG Codec from Fastvideo Russia-based Fastvideo released a new JPEG codec for GPUs. It utilizes CUDA to speed up image compression and decompression. Peak performance reaches 6 GB per second (and higher for images loaded into RAM). Numerical Computations with GPUs Volodymyr Kindratenko of the University of Illinois is editing a book titled "Numerical Computations with GPUs." It will contain articles on core numerical methods adapted for GPUs. Researchers are invited to submit their work for consideration for inclusion in the book. HPC Experiment The Ubercloud HPC Experiment has extended an open invitation to members of the HPC community: "Join us for the 4th Round of the HPC Experiment, where we will apply the cloud computing service model to workloads on remote cluster computing resources in the areas of HPC, computer aided engineering and the life sciences." HPCwire: Phi and Kepler Run Monte Carlo Race HPCwire editor Nicole Hemsoth interviews Jorg Lotze, CTO of Xcelerit about recent benchmarking efforts. GTC 2014 Call for Submissions Call for Submissions for the GPU Technology Conference (March 24-27, 2014) is open through Sept. 27. Compute the Cure The NVIDIA Foundation is awarding up to $200k to a cancer research project. Applications due Oct. 7. Upcoming Webinars Sept. 26: Profile OpenGL 4.2 with NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 3.1, Jeff Kiel, NVIDIA Oct. 9: OpenACC 2.0 vs OpenMP 4.0 Comparison, James Beyer, Cray Oct. 22: Intro to SeqAn, an Open-Source C++ Template Library, Knut Reinert, FU Berlin