NVIDIA CUDA: Week in Review

NVIDIA CUDA & GPU computing news from around the world

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 GPUs via the cloud - through a new service called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Peter De Santis, general manager of Amazon EC2, commented: "We're excited to help our customers access the raw power of GPU technology."

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.

Mathematica 8 Supports the GPU
Wolfram's Mathematica 8 harnesses GPU for general computations using CUDA.

GPU-Accelerated Statistics in MATLAB with Jacket v1.6
AccelerEyes released version 1.6 of the Jacket GPU programming platform for MATLAB.

Supercomputing 2010
Wrap-up of SC10 news and presentations made on the NVIDIA booth.

CUDA CALENDAR:

CUDA training - CAPS, Nov. 23-25, Rennes, France
webinar - Allinea Software, Nov. 24-25
MATLAB Expo - Nov. 26, Tokyo
IEEE/ACM Intl. Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, papers deadline, Nov. 30

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