| NVIDIA CUDA: Week in Review Issue 40 |
| Written by NVIDIA | ||
| Tuesday, 02 November 2010 | ||
NVIDIA CUDA: Week in Review Issue 40NVIDIA CUDA & GPU computing news from around the world
CUDA SPOTLIGHT: What Do Angelina Jolie, Adobe and NVIDIA Have in Common? Speed is critical when you're a secret agent on the run, as demonstrated by Angelina Jolie in Sony Pictures' summer thriller Salt. Speed also played a key role in the creation of visual effects for the movie, which were executed, in part, by Moscow-based visual effects company Tikibot, using NVIDIA Quadro, CUDA and Adobe CS5 Premiere Pro.
CUDA NEWS: Tesla GPUs Power World's Fastest Supercomputer: Tianhe-1A, the new supercomputer revealed at HPC 2010 China, set a new performance record of 2.507 petaflops, making it the fastest system in the world. For more info, read the blog post by Andy Walsh, NVIDIA's director of Tesla products.
NVIDIA Experts Publish New Paper on Throughput-Oriented Architectures: Michael Garland and David B. Kirk of NVIDIA have written a paper about the growing prominence of throughput-oriented microprocessor architectures. Published in Communications of the ACM, the paper concludes that "the ideal system is... heterogeneous, where a latency-oriented processor (such as a CPU) and a throughput-oriented processor (such as a GPU) work in tandem to address the heterogeneous workloads presented to them."
Supercomputing 2010 is Just Around the Corner (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.
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