NVIDIA CUDA: Week in Review - Issue 33

GPU TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE COUNTDOWN: 27 DAYS!

The GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2010) is offering a great line up on technical content. Here's a sampling of newly-confirmed sessions:

• GPU-Enabled Biomedical Imaging by Homer Pien, Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
• TSUBAME 2.0 by Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Domain Specific Languages by Hanspeter Pfister, Harvard University

CUDA SPOTLIGHT

An international team has discovered multi-cellular organisms in Gabon, Africa that are 2.1 billion years old -- with assistance from the GPU. This discovery was recently highlighted in Nature. To learn more, we contacted Arnaud Mazurier of ERM in Poitiers, France and Francois Curnier, CEO of Digisens.

CUDA NEWS

Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) has been named a CUDA Center of Excellence. Jeffrey Vetter of Georgia Tech and Oak Ridge National Laboratory will serve as principal investigator.

CUDA Survey

CUDA Users: Please take a few minutes to tell NVIDIA how you are using CUDA-capable GPUs: https://surveys.nvidia.com/index.jsp?pi=a31edabdb979dd51982f46ac68c6bbc6

See more info this week's issue of CUDA: Week in Review: www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_week_in_review_newsletter