NVIDIA CUDA: Week in Review

NVIDIA CUDA & GPU computing news from around the world

CUDA SPOTLIGHT

Developing Robots with CUDA: PhD student Martin Peniak at the University of Plymouth in the UK is creating robots that can develop cognitive capabilities. Read an interview with him here: https://www.nvidia.com/content/newsletters/web/CUDA-Week-in-Review-Dec-20-10.html

CUDA DEVELOPER NEWS

Business Intelligence in the Cloud: Jedox announced that Palo GPU is available via Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

- For info on Jedox, see: https://www.jedox.com/

- For info on Amazon EC2 (Cluster GPU Instances), see: https://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/11/new-ec2-instance-type-the-cluster-gpu-instance.html

New Molecular Dynamics Code with CUDA Support: DL_POLY is a general purpose molecular dynamics (MD) simulation software developed at Daresbury Laboratory in the UK by Dr. Ilian Todorov and Dr. William Smith. The newest release (DL_POLY_4) was developed in collaboration with the Irish Centre for High-End Computing to harness the power of CUDA and NVIDIA GPUs. DL_POLY_4 is free of cost to academics. Commercial organizations may contact Dr. Todorov at

See: www.cse.scitech.ac.uk/ccg/software/DL_POLY/

REPLAY OF THE WEEK

Each week we highlight a session from GTC 2010. Here's our pick for this week:

- Power Management Techniques for Heterogeneous Exascale Computing, by Xiaohui (Sean) Cui - Oak Ridge National Laboratory (40 mins.)

- https://www.nvidia.com/object/gtc2010-presentation-archive.html#session2052

CUDA JOBS

University of Delaware, Global Computing Lab: Graduate research assistant to work on Monte Carlo methods accelerated by GPUs. https://gcl.cis.udel.edu/

Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Post-doc research associate in computational statistics, in area of climate data analysis.

https://www.orau.org/ornl/postdocs/ornl-pd-pm/description.aspx?JobId=1159

CUDA CALENDAR

Scientific Computing in the Americas: The Challenge of Massive Parallelism, Jan. 3-14, 2011, Valparaiso, Chile

www.bu.edu/pasi

NEW: GPU & Parallel Computing Workshop - SagivTech and Microsoft R&D, Jan. 6, 2011, Herzliya, Israel (at Microsoft R&D)

Note: Free of charge, pre-registration required. For more info, contact:

https://www.sagivtech.com/21262.html

NEW: CUDA/OpenCL Training - Acceleware and Colfax, Jan. 17-21, 2011, Sunnyvale, Calif.

https://www.acceleware.com/jan17sunnyvale

NEW: Optimizing Financial Modeling/Chicago - Wolfram Research, Jan. 25, 2011, Chicago

Featured Speaker: Dr. Michael Kelly

https://www.wolfram.com/events/chicago2011/

NEW: Optimizing Financial Modeling/New York - Wolfram Research, Jan. 27, 2011, New York

Featured Speaker: Dr. Michael Kelly

https://www.wolfram.com/events/newyork2011/

Read CUDA: Week in Review on the web at: https://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_week_in_review_newsletter.html