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...]
NVIDIA’s Women Who CUDA Campaign – May 30, 2014 Deadline!
On May 8, 2014 NVIDIA launched the Women Who CUDA campaign to highlight the work of innovative women in the area of GPU computing. Winning entries in the CUDA Women survey (click here to enter) - that is open until May 30, 2014, will be published on the high-visibility, high-volume NVIDIA website. Tweets during the campaign will provide visibility in the GPU computing community … [Read more...]
PGI 14.4 is now released with lots of OpenACC C++ Goodness!
PGI 14.4 is now released with lots of OpenACC C++ goodness. Give it a try! Here is the link for or those with existing licenses. If need be, get a 15 day trial license and use some of my OpenACC tutorials. PGI Trial keys Trial license keys are used for evaluating PGI software. They are valid for fifteen days. If you haven't already done so, you … [Read more...]
PGI 14.4 Release Contains Much OpenACC C++ Goodness
PGI released their 14.4 and upcoming 14.7 OpenACC 2.0 roadmap. The expectation is that we will see the 14.4 release in early May and the 14.7 release in early July. Note: these are not official PGI dates. Analysis: The 14.4 support of atomic operations will enable many low-wait algorithms such as counters and massively parallel stacks. Improved reduction performance in … [Read more...]
(4/24 update) Signals from Nvidia’s Sumit Gupta
Sumit Gupta is a busy man. Named by HPCwire as a 2013 "Person to Watch", Sumit does not idly take time to create a blog post unless it conveys a message about the NVIDIA Tesla development and marketing effort. His recent blog, "Fostering an Explosion of Innovation in the Data Center", posted by Steve Hamm, recognizes how the data-center is going to be supporting mobile … [Read more...]