AN UPDATE FROM NVIDIA:MARCH 12,　2010

WELCOME

Welcome to this week’s issue of "CUDA: Week in Review." Questions or suggestions? Email us at cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com

CUDA NEWS

Bringing GPU Power to Engineering Computations

MATLAB from MathWorks is a high-level language and interactive environment that enables developers to perform computationally intensive tasks faster than with traditional programming languages. Now there’s a new tool called "AccelerEyes Jacket" that provides a way for MATLAB users to easily tap into the power of CUDA GPUs for advanced computations. Tech editor Peter Varhol of Desktop Engineering writes that the AccelerEyes product "acts as kind of a traffic cop for executing code‚ diverting code to run on the GPU when appropriate." Read the full story:http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aaawfj.htm

CUDA APPS

CUDA for Optical Character Recognition

Russia-based Cognitive Technologies is an OCR (optical character recognition) software developer. Its Cognitive Passport product is used for the scanning and recognition of documents such as passports and ID cards in environments where speed and accuracy are critical‚ such as busy airports where thousands of documents are processed daily. Recently‚ Cognitive released new software that leverages CUDA to double the speed of the application. Learn more here:http://is.gd/aampo

GPUs‚ Open Source‚ and Finance

Professor Mark Joshi is a well-known author and quant (note: a "quant" designs and implements mathematical models for the pricing of derivatives‚ assessment of risk‚ or predicting market movements). Mark recently launched a new open source project called Kooderive. His objective is to utilize CUDA-enabled GPUs to produce fast Monte Carlo pricing models for financial derivatives. He has already developed a fast Monte Carlo path generator for pricing exotic interest rate derivatives. The next stage will be to integrate with existing code in the QuantLib open source project. On June 2‚ Mark will teach a 3-day course on pricing exotic interest rate derivatives at the Institute of Physics in London. For more info‚ see: http://www.markjoshi.com

CUDA ZONE

New on CUDA Zone: Random Linear Network Coding on GPUs

Extract: "Random linear network coding has recently been widely applied in peer-to-peer networks and wireless networks in order to enhance the system throughput and robustness…. This paper exploits CUDA for network coding and homomorphic hashing…. The results show that for network encoding the CUDA approach shows an 80X speedup over same generation CPUs…." Authors: Xiaowen Chu‚ Kaiyong Zhao‚ Mea Wang; Hong Kong Baptist University; University of Calgary‚ Alberta‚ Canada. See: http://is.gd/aa1QE

Submit Your Work

Have a CUDA-related paper or research? Show it on CUDA Zone: http://is.gd/8G3E4

CUDA JOBS

Zymeworks Inc. is a Canadian computational biotech company developing technology for optimizing protein therapeutics. Zymeworks is looking for a talented software engineer to take part in developing high performance molecular simulation and analysis tools on GPUs. See posting here: http://is.gd/aa076. See more CUDA and GPU computing-related job postings here:http://is.gd/91IEu

CUDA EDUCATION

PGI CUDA Fortran Webinar

PGI Fortran from the Portland Group features GPU acceleration. A live webinar will be presented by PGI to provide an intro to the product and its GPU acceleration capabilities. The webinar will take place on Wednesday‚ March 24‚ at 9:00 a.m. Pacific time. Register now:https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/929210147

GPU Computing Webinars (CUDA C and OpenCL)

Current schedule: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/gpu_computing_online.html

Acceleware-Certified CUDA Training

Silicon Valley‚ March 24-25: http://www.acceleware.com/index.cfm/cuda-training/mar24sunnyvale/

Calgary‚ April 12-16: http://www.acceleware.com/index.cfm/cuda-training/apr12calgary/

CUDA and GPU Computing Courses

Over 310 universities are teaching CUDA and GPU Computing courses. See the list:http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_courses_and_map.html

Call for Papers

Symposium on Chemical Computations on GPGPUs. Abstracts due 4/5/10. See:http://illinois.edu/lb/article/2101/33709

CUDA RESOURCES

– CUDA Video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOGLkl9cFPw

– CUDA Toolkit: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda_2_3_downloads.html

– Developer Guides: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/gpucomputing.html

– Programming Massively Parallel Processors, by D. Kirk, W. Hwu: http://is.gd/7bNYP

CUDA ON THE WEB

– Follow CUDA & GPU Computing on Twitter: www.twitter.com/gpucomputing

– Network with other developers: www.gpucomputing.net

– Stayed tuned to GPGPU news and events: www.gpgpu.org

– Learn more about CUDA on CUDA Zone: www.nvidia.com/cuda

About CUDA

CUDA is NVIDIA’s parallel computing hardware architecture. NVIDIA provides a complete toolkit for programming on the CUDA architecture‚ supporting standard computing languages such as C‚ C++‚ and Fortran as well as APIs such as OpenCL and DirectCompute

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