Deep-learning is a computational expensive but rewarding method to solve many complex pattern recognition problems. The recent NVIDIA webinar by Dan Claudiu Cireșan, Senior Researcher at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA) in Switzerland highlighted some of the capabilities of deep-learning for image recognition problems such as handwriting recognition … [Read more...]
SC14 – Fast Hybrid GPU Betweenness Centrality Code Achieves Nearly Ideal Scaling to 192 GPUs
Don't miss the SC14 presentation Wednesday Nov. 19 in room 388-89-90, for the presentation of the McLaughlin and Bader paper "Scalable and High Performance Betweenness Centrality on the GPU". The authors report nearly ideal scaling to 192 GPUs and billions of edges traversed per step (GTEP). The paper can be downloaded here and their software can be downloaded from … [Read more...]
Start Developing on the ARM-Powered NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Now!
NVIDIA posted a development kit for the NVIDIA Shield Tablet including a banquet of languages (CUDA, Java, C/C++, ...) and developer tools. A complete list of features can be found at Tegra Android Development Pack and are available for download under the NVIDIA GameWorks Download Center. Develop on the latest and fastest mobile hardware available with the all-new NVIDIA® … [Read more...]
NVIDIA Launches Women and CUDA Site
Today NVIDIA launched the new Women and CUDA website, representing female students, professors and industry experts from around the world. Take a look. This follows up on NVIDIA's Women@GTC event in March that invited women developers, researchers and scientists to share how they utilize GPU computing in their work. TechEnablement previous reported on women in technology events … [Read more...]
Pre-order Your NVIDIA Shield Tablet Now! (available July 29 in US)
The Tegra K1-powered NVIDIA Shield Tablet is here - available July 29 in the US! Pre-order here! For more information on the shield tablet, or go to shield.nvidia.com. http://youtu.be/VohrddwVQqg Those who are adventurous, Caonical has a dual-boot mode that will allow Ubuntu to run on tablets, and potentially other devices bringing full Linux and CUDA … [Read more...]
TechEnablement Adds Funding Opportunity Posts via Dr. William Reynolds
TechEnablement is pleased to announce that Dr. William Reynolds PhD - an expert in applied scientific computing, funding proposals, and government research, - will be identifying pending funding opportunities for our readership. These posts will round out the TechEnablement content pool to (1) educate readers about the current technology, (2) plan both applications and … [Read more...]
NVIDIA Shield 2 will be a tablet (with stylus) as well as a gaming device!
It's looks like it is true (and it can now be ordered), the K1-powered Shield 2 Gaming console will also be an 8" tablet! What a cool idea! This will be a CUDA/Gamers/Tablet/(cellphone?) honey of a device. (July 22: It's available now!). NVIDIA has created a tweet-based game "Ultimate Quest" in what is believed to be a promotion for the Shield 2. Click on the image below … [Read more...]
South Africa Team Wins Their Second Student Supercomputing Competition At ISC14
Congratulations to the South African students who won their second ISC14 Student Supercomputing Competition! In 2013 the South African students were considered the underdog due to their youth and lack of competitive experience. This year the team from the South African Centre for High Performance Computing won the overall 2014 competition. To win, students have to build a … [Read more...]
ARM64 with CUDA Early Access Boards Now Available
The X-Gene™ ARM64 and CUDA Development Platform for High Performance Computing (HPC) is now available to order from Cirrascale, the US Applied Micro (APM) integration partner. This board represents an entry point for ARM64 + CUDA into the enterprise markets as well. The X-Gene™ board features custom high-performance ARM v8 processor based on an advanced 64-bit ARM … [Read more...]
NVIDIA App Showcase, See What Performance is Possible
Considering utilizing GPUs in your application? The NVIDIA Application Showcase is a great place to examine a broad spectrum of applications that have been GPU accelerated and the speedups that have been achieved. The recently updated list now contains descriptions, links, and performance reports for over 270 GPU accelerated applications. … [Read more...]