CUDA: Week In Review CUDA-Accelerated Adventures

Welcome to CUDA: Week In Review, news for the worldwide CUDA, GPGPU and parallel programming community.

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CUDA SPOTLIGHT

CUDA-Accelerated Adventures This week’s CUDA Spotlight is on Cyrille Favreau and Christophe Favreau, brothers who leverage GPU computing in different ways, with equally compelling results. Cyrille, a technical architect by day, uses CUDA in his free time to pursue his interest in visualization technologies. His projects include building a real-time ray-tracing engine and molecule visualizer, and exploring fractal theory. Christophe, a professional photographer and videographer, is passionate about sailing and nature. GPUs help him produce beautiful work as he travels the world.

CUDA NEWS

New CUDA Book Congrats to NVIDIANs Gregory Ruetsch and Massimiliano Fatica, who have authored a new book: CUDA Fortran for Scientists and Engineers: Best Practices for Efficient CUDA Fortran Programming (Morgan Kaufmann). The book is designed to show how high-performance application developers can leverage the power of GPUs using Fortran. Tesla M2090 Redux Looking for an entry-level Tesla GPU accelerator? Want to expand your existing M2090 cluster? The Tesla M2090 is back by popular demand. At the same price point as a popular CPU, it easily achieves 2X the performance for many applications. Contact a Tesla Preferred Partner. 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. Upcoming Webinars Oct. 22: Intro to SeqAn, an Open-Source C++ Template Library, Knut Reinert, FU Berlin Oct. 23: Revolutionize Virtual Desktops..., Will Wade, NVIDIA Oct. 29: Improve Performance using CUDA Memory Model, Kelly Goss, Acceleware Oct. 30: OpenACC 2.0 Enhancements for Cray Supercomputers, James Beyer, Cray Inc. Nov. 5: Accelerating Face-in-the-Crowd Recognition, Brian Lovell, Stephen Brain, Imagus Technology Nov. 6: Bright Cluster Manager Solution for GPU-based HPC, Ian Lumb, Bright Computing Upcoming Meetups Oct. 17: Singapore (New!) Oct. 17: Paris Oct. 17: Sydney Oct. 22: Boston Oct. 24: Brisbane Oct. 29: Minneapolis Nov. 4: Silicon Valley Nov. 20: Colorado (Co-located with SC13)