| NVIDIA CUDA Week in Review - Issue 56 |
| Friday, 10 June 2011 | ||
NVIDIA CUDA Week in Review - Issue 56NVIDIA CUDA & GPU computing news from around the worldCUDA SPOTLIGHT This week's Spotlight is on Axel Kohlmeyer of Temple University, an expert in high-performance computing. Here's a preview of our interview: NVIDIA: Axel, when did you start using GPUs? Axel: John Stone of the University of Illinois is to blame for my involvement in GPUs :). Since about 2003 I have become more and more involved with John's main project, VMD (the molecular visualization program).... I got started for real with GPUs when I learned about HOOMD (Highly Optimized Object-oriented Many-particle Dynamics), written by Joshua Anderson. It turned out that HOOMD was a good match for a new coarse grain molecular dynamics model that is being developed in our group. Two colleagues and I implemented a few additionally required features into HOOMD and were impressed by the performance of running MD on a GPU.
Axel: Advances in processor speed and parallelization (including CUDA) are allowing us to undertake calculations routinely that were "impossible" just a short time ago. This has spawned a lot of creativity in studying compound systems, like large bio-molecules embedded into realistic environments such as membranes. NVIDIA: Temple recently installed a new high-performance computing cluster, based on an NSF grant. Axel: This is a big win for Temple and a great opportunity in many different ways. Many areas of research are moving towards using high-performance computing tools, thus well-funded and well-supported local facilities are important. Read the complete interview here: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-spotlight-gpu-accelerated-discovery CUDA DEVELOPER NEWS Sharpen Your Skills This Summer: Two new resources to help you enhance your GPU computing knowledge: - GTC Learning Center (education, news and insight): www.gputechconf.com/page/gtc-learning-center.html - CUDA Webinar Series (from basics to deep dives): www.nvidia.com/webinars Supermicro's New SuperServers: Computex in Taiwan, Supermicro introduced its latest high-end GPU SuperServers, which incorporate advanced energy-efficient components and support CUDA-based Tesla M2050, M2070 and M2090 GPUs. https://www.supermicro.com/newsroom/pressreleases/2011/press110531_Computex.cfm LIBJACKET v1.0: AccelerEyes released version 1.0 of LIBJACKET, enabling GPU programmers to achieve better performance. The library is available for C, C++, Fortran and Python. https://www.accelereyes.com/news/libjacket_1.0 EmPro 2011.07: Agilent announced a new version of Electromagnetic Professional (EmPro), an electromagnetic modeling and simulation platform. The EmPro Finite Difference Time Domain simulator offers GPU acceleration, resulting in a 6X speedup when using CUDA-based systems. https://www.agilent.com/about/newsroom/presrel/2011/07jun-em11067.html New GPGPU Meetup Groups: - Washington, DC: www.meetup.com/HPC-GPU-Supercomputing-Group-of-Washington-DC/ - Southern Florida: https://www.supercomputinggroup.com/ Read CUDA: Week in Review on the web at: https://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_week_in_review_newsletter.html
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