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LEGO Locks In On CUDA To Build A Better Business

A few short years ago, the LEGO Group—makers of the iconic locking building-block toys so many parents have stepped on in the middle of the night—was plagued by uncontrolled technology sprawl. Various business units within LEGO were purchasing redundant licenses for the same technologies, with each team using the technologies for different purposes. Many business…

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NVIDIA Names Four New CUDA Fellows

Today, we added four outstanding research and academic leaders to the CUDA Fellows Program, which recognizes individuals committed to championing the adoption and use of the CUDA architecture and GPU computing. The new Fellows are: Lorena Barba, Boston University Manuel Ujaldón, University of Malaga Scott Le Grand, Amazon.com Inc. Takayuki Aoki, Tokyo Tech These new…

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No Free Lunch for Intel MIC (or GPU’s)

The recent news and industry reaction regarding Intel’s forthcoming “Many Integrated Core” (MIC) accelerator has been interesting to watch. It appears Intel, like NVIDIA and AMD, has now concluded that hybrid architectures are the proper response to the growing power constraints of high performance computing. While I agree with this, some of the discussions around…

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Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop Adding New CUDA Centers

There’s no stopping the growth of CUDA and GPU-computing adoption around the world. Today, we welcome 23 universities and research institutions to our family of CUDA Research Centers and CUDA Teaching Centers. CUDA Teaching Centers empower tens-of-thousands of students each year with the knowledge and expertise to take advantage of GPUs and their parallel-processing capabilities.…

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Registration For GTC 2012 Swings Open

Following a whirlwind tour of Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and China, the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) returns home to San Jose, Calif., for its flagship event on May 14-17, and registration opens today. Now into its third year, GTC keeps getting better and better. This year’s event will feature some of the most advanced scientific research…

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Using GPU’s for Air Traffic Management

Legroom is tight, babies are screaming and the food supply is running low. Such are the horrors of being stuck on the tarmac. Thankfully, the folks at Silicon Valley-based Optimal Synthesis are working to advance air traffic flow management using CUDA GPUs. By some estimates, the number of aircraft in our skies will double by 2025.…

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NVIDIA CEO Kicks Off GTC Asia 2011

The two-day GTC Asia event in Beijing kicked off today, with over 1,500 attendees streaming into the China National Convention Center to catch a glimpse of NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang deliver a keynote on the state of the union of supercomputing. He told the gathering of scientists, researchers, company execs and government officials that the…

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13 New CUDA Centers Push Total To Near 500

CUDA centers continue to spread the word about GPU-related parallel computing around the world. A further 13 universities and research Institutions in seven countries signed on today, pushing the total number of CUDA Research Centers  and CUDA Teaching Centers to near 500. CUDA Teaching Centers instruct tens of thousands of students each year about parallel…

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Help Us Map The World Of GPU Computing

A friend recently asked me how many universities I could name off the top of my head that carrying out research using GPUs. To my surprise, I was able to name over 30. That’s not a bad start. But it’s  not even close to the total number of computing centers and researchers around the world…