Mon., Oct. 8,2012, Issue #81 | Read Newsletter Online | See Previous Issues |
Welcome toCUDA: WEEK INREVIEW, a news summary for the worldwide CUDA,GPGPU and parallel programming community. |
| CUDA TECH TIP: How to detect CUDA compute capability at compiletime. See tip below. |
| | YOUR CUDA STORY ATSC12: Let us know howyou use CUDA in 140 characters or less. Your submission will beconsidered for display on NVIDIA’s SC12 booth (#2217) and website.
Reply to the one-minute survey. |
| | CUDA SPOTLIGHT | Using GPUs to Study the HumanBrain
This week’s Spotlight is on Dr. Anders Eklund, a postdoc atthe Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute. Anders was a CUDASpotlight in 2011 while a student at Linkoping University inSweden. We caught up with him recently to learn about his currentwork. Read the interview here. | |
| | CUDA NEWS | Robotic Bees?
The i09 website reports on a GPU computing project at theUniversities of Sheffield and Sussex, where scientists "are hopingto create the first accurate computer simulation of a honey beebrain - and then upload it into an autonomous flying robot…. Theresearchers hope a robotic insect could supplement or replace theshrinking population of honey bees." See: http://bit.ly/QGzkAH
Chemistry and LifeScience
Equip@meso will hold its first-ever scientific event - "Chemistryand Life Science: Numerical Simulation to HPC" - on Oct. 18 at theUniversity of Strasbourg. Equip@meso is a France-based initiativeto create a network of supercomputers for calculation-intensivetasks. See: http://hpc.unistra.fr
F# on theGPU
At the "F#unctional Londoners" Meetup on Oct. 18, attendees willhear a talk by Daniel Egloff on F# on the GPU with Alea.CUDA. Dr.Egloff is the founder of QuantAlea. See: http://www.meetup.com/FSharpLondon/events/83105582/
HPC SolutionsWorkshop
Dell is holding an event called "Enabling Discovery with Dell HPCSolutions" on Oct. 25 in Baltimore, Maryland. The workshop istargeted to researchers and developers. Speakers include:
•TamasBudavari, Johns Hopkins University
•AnupMahurkar, University of Maryland Baltimore
•JeffreyB. Klauda, University of Maryland College Park
•KevinHildebrand, University of Maryland College Park
•JonathanBentz, NVIDIA
See: http://bit.ly/PG8apz
CUDAConsulting
Training, programming, and project development services areavailable from CUDA consultants around the world. To be consideredfor inclusion on list, email: cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com (with CUDA Consultingin subject line).
GPU Computing onTwitter
For daily updates about GPU computing and parallel programming,follow @gpucomputing on Twitter. |
| | GPU THESIS WATCH | Title: CUDAImplementation of Parallel Algorithms for Animal NoseprintIdentification
Author: Vincent Stanley Dayes, San Diego State University
Advisor: William Root, San Diego State University
URL: http://sdsu-dspace.calstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10211.10/2123/Dayes_Vincent.pdf | | CUDA JOB OF THE WEEK | Ventana MedicalSystems, a member of theRoche Group, is seeking a Senior Imaging Scientist withexpertise in image processing and computer vision to work with acollaborative team of engineers and scientists on initiativespertaining to digital pathology. Familiarity with CUDA a plus. See:http://bit.ly/Ue6N9c | | NEW ON THE NVIDIA BLOG | back to the top | Stay up to dateby reading the NVIDIA blog:
GPU-Accelerated Computing Surges in Russia, bySumit Gupta
Synerscope: Data Analysis for the Rest of Us,by Brian Caulfield | | GPU MEETUPS | back to the top | Find a GPU Meetupin your location, or start one up. Upcoming meetings include:
Silicon Valley, Oct. 8
Paris, Oct. 18 (special full day event)
Brisbane, Oct. 25
New York, Oct. 30
Note: If you would be interested joining a GPU Meetup inMinneapolis, Minn., see: http://linkd.in/Vip04N | | CUDA TECH TIP | back to the top | Detect CUDA Compute Capability at CompileTime
When nvcc compiles a .cu file, it defines the __CUDA_ARCH__ preprocessor macro to a value representing theCUDA Compute Capability. Section 6.7.4 of the NVCC documentation("CUDA Compiler Driver NVCC," included with the CUDA Toolkit)states that: …the architecture identification macro__CUDA_ARCH__ is assigned a three-digit value string xy0 (ending in aliteral 0) during each nvcc compilation stage 1 that compilesfor compute_xy. This macro can be used in the implementation of GPUfunctions for determining the virtual architecture for which it iscurrently being compiled. The host code (the non-GPU code) must notdepend on it. As an example,this function uses the macro to only call Compute Capability 2.0functions on devices that support them: | #if __CUDA_ARCH__>= 200
intb = __ballot();
intp = popc(b & lanemask);
#else
//do something else for earlier architectures
#endif | (Source: Stack Overflow) | | CUDA CALENDAR | back to the top | October-December - GPU Acceleration inBioinformatics Oct. 9, 2012,London, U.K.
Sponsored by Institute for Cancer Research and NVIDIA
http://www.icr.ac.uk/research/seminar_page/index.shtml |
- OpenACC Directives with PGIAccelerator Compilers (Webinar)
Oct. 11,2012
Taught by Michael Wolfe, PGI
Note: Final webinar in a 3-part series
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/606609858 |
- OpenACC Workshop (RWTHAachen University)
Oct. 11-12, 2012,Aachen, Germany
Taught by Timo Stich, NVIDIA and Sandra Wienke, RWTH AachenUniversity
http://www.rz.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/tmy?lang=en |
- Nsight Eclipse: HighProductivity IDE for CUDA on Linux, MacOS(Webinar)
Oct. 12, 2012,10:00 am IST
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/789709786 |
- Portability, Scalability,Numerical Stability in Accelerated Kernels(Webinar)
Oct. 16, 2012,9:00 am PT
Speaker: John Stratton, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign
http://www.gputechconf.com/page/gtc-express-webinar.html |
- OpenACC Workshop (NationalScience Foundation, USA)
Oct. 16-17,2012
Hosted by Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, Natl. Inst. forComputational Sciences, Georgia Tech
Note: Telecast to 10 satellite sites around the USA
http://www.psc.edu/index.php/training/openacc-gpu-programming |
- Dell HPC SolutionsWorkshop
Oct. 25, 2012,Baltimore, Maryland
Note: Includes talks by researchers, complimentary lunch
http://bit.ly/PG8apz |
- GPU Accelerated Applicationsand Academic Research
Oct. 31, 2012,10:00 am PT
Speaker: Devang Sachdev, NVIDIA
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/206620714 |
- 4-Day CUDA Training Course(Acceleware)
Nov. 6-9, 2012,Houston, Texas
http://acceleware.com/training-course/16 |
- SC12
Nov. 10-16, 2012,Salt Lake City, Utah
http://sc12.supercomputing.org/ |
- GPUs in theCloud
Dec. 3-6, 2012,Taipei, Taiwan
http://gpu-cloud.cs.astate.edu/ |
- Many-Core DeveloperConference (UKMAC 2012)
Dec. 5, 2012,University of Bristol, UK
http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Research/Micro/UKMAC2012/ |
2013 - GPU Tech Conference March 18-21,2013, San Jose, Calif.
http://www.gputechconf.com/ |
(To list an event, email: cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com) |
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– Nsight: http://www.nvidia.com/object/nsight.html
– CARMA (pre-register): http://bit.ly/carma_news | CUDA on the Web | – GPU Test Drive:www.nvidia.com/gputestdrive
– Learn more about CUDA: www.nvidia.com/cudazone
– Follow CUDA & GPU Computing on Twitter: www.twitter.com/gpucomputing
– Network with other developers: www.gpucomputing.net
– Stay tuned to GPGPU news and events: www.gpgpu.org
– Newsletter archive: www.nvidia.com/object/cuda-newsletter.html
– CUDA Spotlights: www.nvidia.com/object/cuda-in-action.html |
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