CUDA Week in Review (GPU Tech Conference; Spotlight on Quantum Chemistry)

CUDA Pro Tip: In CUDA 5.5, a new racecheck analysis mode presents a more human-readable analysis of your code, even reporting which source lines conflict with other lines. Learn more at Parallel Forall.

GPU TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE Register today for GTC 2014! The GPU Tech Conference (March 24-27) will feature 500 sessions, tutorials, labs and opportunities for interaction with experts and peers. Registration (20% discount code: GM20CD) Call for posters (open through Jan. 31)

CUDA SPOTLIGHT
CUDA-Accelerated Quantum Chemistry This week’s Spotlight features Professor Todd Martinez of Stanford. His research lies in the area of theoretical chemistry, emphasizing development of new methods which accurately capture quantum mechanical effects. These effects are crucial in understanding chemical bonding, molecular transformations and reactions involving light. Read the Spotlight.
CUDA NEWS
New CUDA Fellow Bin Zhou is an adjunct research professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), where he established a CUDA Teaching Center and trained 500+ developers and students in CUDA programming. Read the announcement. New Beta from Mellanox Mellanox announced the GPUDirect RDMA Beta. This new technology provides a significant decrease in GPU-GPU communication latency and completely offloads the CPU, removing it from GPU-GPU communications across the network. Melanox is a supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions. New Licensing from ANSYS ANSYS, a provider of engineering simulation products, updated its HPC/GPU licensing with ANSYS 15.0 to enable users to more easily take advantage of both CPUs and GPUs in ANSYS Mechanical and ANSYS Fluent simulations. InsideHPC Interview with Rob Farber In this podcast, Rob Farber and Rich Brueckner discuss NVIDIA Tegra K1 and the future of HPC
CUDA TRAINING AND EDUCATION	back to the top
Need CUDA training or advice? See list of worldwide CUDA trainers and consultants. Want to learn about parallel programming? Sign up for Udacity CS344.
UPCOMING GPU WEBINARS	back to the top
Jan. 30: Debugging CUDA Fortran using Allinea, B. Paisley, Allinea Feb. 5: OpenMM - Accelerating and Customizing MD Simulations on GPUs, V. Pande, Stanford Feb. 25: GPUs for Visualization and Analysis of MD Simulations with VMD, J. Stone, Univ. of Illinois
UPCOMING GPU MEETUPS	back to the top
Feb. 1: Minneapolis Feb. 19: Singapore Feb. 24: Silicon Valley Note: New GPU Meetups have launched in Russia and Norway.