CUDA: WEEK IN REVIEW GPU-Accelerated Deep Learning

WELCOME TO CUDA: WEEK IN REVIEW  News and resources for the worldwide GPU and parallel programming community.

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CUDA 6 introduces a new reciprocal hypotenuse function, rhypot(x,y). This provides fast and robust computations of Givens Rotations. Learn more on the Parallel Forall Blog.

CUDA SPOTLIGHT
GPU-Accelerated Deep Learning  Our Spotlight is Dr. Ren Wu , distinguished scientist at Baidu IDL (Institute of Deep Learning). Dr. Wu is known for his pioneering research in using GPUs to accelerate big data analytics as well as his contribution to large-scale clustering algorithms via the GPU. Read the Spotlight.
CUDA NEWS
Women in GPU Computing: Call for Submissions  This summer, NVIDIA will highlight women around the world who are innovators in GPU computing, including women just starting out in their careers. "It's a good way to remind people that women write code, participate in open-source projects and invent things," comments Lorena Barba, CUDA Fellow and associate professor at George Washington University. "It's important to make the technology world more attractive to female students and show them examples of women who are innovators."Learn more. CUDA 6 Report  The CUDA 6 Performance Report is now available. To learn more, download the PDF or listen to the podcast of NVIDIA's Will Ramey speaking with Nicole Hemsoth of HPCwire. Allinea Supports CUDA 6  Allinea Software announced that the new version of its debugging tools, Allinea DDT 4.2.1 , now offers full support for CUDA 6. Allinea DDT 4.2.1 allows developers to maximize their use of Unified Memory and other new CUDA performance and usability features. NVIDIA Developer Forums  Join us on the NVIDIA DevTalk forums to ask questions, share your experiences and learn from other developers. You can also ask questions on Stack Overflow , using the 'cuda' tag.
UPCOMING GPU WEBINARS	back to the top
May 20: Using GPUs for Big Data , A. O'Connor, Exelis May 22: C++ on GPUs Using OpenACC and PGI Compilers , M. Wolfe May 28: Intro to CUDA Programming , C. Mason, Acceleware June 3: Next Steps for Folding@home , V. Pande, Stanford June 4: Using GPUs in a Holographic Radar System , P. Wurmsdobler, Aveillant
UPCOMING GPU MEETUPS	back to the top
May 19: Silicon Valley  May 20: Paris  May 20: Moscow  May 29: Singapore  May 29: Boston