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Welcome to CUDA: Week in Review, an online news summary for the worldwide CUDA and GPU computing community.
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CUDA SPOTLIGHT |
In the Cloud: On Demand GPU Supercomputing from Amazon EC2
For the first time ever, enterprises and start-ups can access the supercomputing power of NVIDIA GPUs via the cloud - through a new service called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Why it matters: Supercomputing is increasingly important for technological innovation in everything from medical research and product design to climate modeling and energy exploration. However, the upfront cost of systems has limited their use, especially at the early stages of a project when people want to try out new ideas. By making GPUs available through Amazon EC2, supercomputing will be available to more innovators earlier in the process.
Peter De Santis, general manager of Amazon EC2, comments: "We're excited to help our customers access the raw power of GPU technology and look forward to the innovation this will enable." See Amazon Web Services blog post: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/11/new-ec2-instance-type-the-cluster-gpu-instance.html
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CUDA NEWS |
CUDA Toolkit 3.2 Delivers up to 300% Performance Improvement NVIDIA announced the production release of CUDA Toolkit 3.2, which provides significant performance increases, improved math libraries and advanced cluster management features, including an up to 300% performance improvement in the CUDA BLAS library (CUBLAS) – which is eight times faster than the latest Intel MKL (Math Kernel Library).
- CUDA Toolkit 3.2 download: www.nvidia.com/getcuda
- CUDA Toolkit 3.2 webinar (Nov. 23): www2.gotomeeting.com/register/887428835
Mathematica 8 Supports the GPU
Wolfram's Mathematica 8 harnesses GPU devices for general computations using CUDA. A range of Mathematica 8 GPU-enhanced functions are built-in for areas such as linear algebra, image processing, financial simulation and Fourier transforms.
- Watch the video: www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-8/ (see segment 2:21-3:01)
GPU-Accelerated Statistics in MATLAB with Jacket v1.6
AccelerEyes released version 1.6 of the Jacket GPU programming platform for MATLAB. The new version delivers a new statistics library featuring functions common to life science, defense and financial computing applications.
- See: www.accelereyes.com/products/compare
Supercomputing 2010
Upcoming events at this week's SC10 conference in New Orleans include:
- Scaling Hierarchical N-Body Simulations on GPU Clusters, Nov. 18
- Size Matters: Space/Time Tradeoffs to Improve GPGPU Apps Performance, Nov. 18
- Optimal Utilization of Heterogeneous Resources for Biomolecular Simulations, Nov. 18
- Disruptive Technologies for Ubiquitous High Performance Computing, Nov. 19
- For wrap-up of SC10 news and presentations made on the NVIDIA booth, see: www.nvidia.com/sc10
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CUDA CALENDAR |
November 2010
– Supercomputing 2010 (SC10)
Nov. 13-19, New Orleans |
The NVIDIA GPU Computing Theater at SC10 will feature talks by industry luminaries, scientists and developers. All conference attendees are invited to participate. |
www.nvidia.com/sc10
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– Paving the Road to Exascale - Mellanox (at SC10)
– Best-in-Class FSI Solutions (webinar) - ACUSIM
– Training from CAPS
– Improve Time to Debug (webinar) - Allinea Software
– MATLAB Expo
– Call for Papers - IEEE/ACM Intl. Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
December 2010
– CUDA and Advanced Image Processing - SagivTech
– UK GPU Computing Conference - Univ. of Cambridge
– SIGGRAPH Asia
2011
– Scientific Computing in the Americas: The Challenge of Massive Parallelism
– IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
– Intelligent Vehicles Conference - IEEE
– Internat'l. Conference on Computer Systems and Applications
Ongoing
(To list an event, email: cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com)
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CUDA RESOURCES |
GPU Technology Conference |
– See presentations and keynotes from GTC 2010: www.nvidia.com/gtc
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CUDA GPUs |
– See list of CUDA-enabled GPUs: www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_gpus.html
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CUDA and Parallel Nsight Overview |
– See blog post and video: http://is.gd/gbGen
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CUDA Downloads |
– Download CUDA Toolkit 3.2: http://bit.ly/aKCENp
– Download OpenCL v1.1 pre-release drivers and SDK code samples (Log in or apply for an account)
– Get developer guides and docs: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/gpucomputing.html |
CUDA and Academia |
– Learn more at http://research.nvidia.com/ |
CUDA on the Web |
– See previous issues of CUDA: Week in Review: http://is.gd/cBXbg
– Follow CUDA & GPU Computing on Twitter: www.twitter.com/gpucomputing
– Network with other developers: www.gpucomputing.net
– Stayed tuned to GPGPU news and events: www.gpgpu.org
– Learn more about CUDA on CUDA Zone: www.nvidia.com/cuda
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CUDA Recommended Reading |
– Read Kudos for CUDA: www.hpcwire.com/features/Kudos-for-CUDA-97889444.html
– Read Supercomputing for the Masses, Part 20: http://is.gd/f9o6o
– Read CUDA books: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_books.html
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About CUDA |
CUDA is NVIDIA’s parallel computing hardware architecture. NVIDIA provides a complete toolkit for programming on the CUDA architecture, supporting standard computing languages such as C, C++ and Fortran as well as APIs such as OpenCL and DirectCompute. Send comments and suggestions to: cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com |
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