The CUDA 6 Production Release is now available for download at www.nvidia.com/getcuda. This version of the toolkit includes features that further simplify parallel programming like: • Unified Memory: simplifies programming by enabling applications to access the CPU and GPU memory without the need to manually copy data. • Drop-in Libraries: automatically accelerate … [Read more...]
Part 3 of CUDA Supercomputing for the masses
Error handling and global memory performance limitations. This article is reprinted from Dr. Dobbs (http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/207603131). It is still valid as an introductory article. Congratulations! Thanks to Part 1 and Part 2 of this series on CUDA (short for "Compute Unified Device Architecture"), you are now a CUDA-enabled programmer with the … [Read more...]
Farber teaches massively parallel computing to grade 6 – 12 students in Saudi Arabia
My book, “CUDA Application Design and Development” [English][Chinese] and Doctor Dobbs tutorials coupled with the rapid adoption of GPU computing have given me the opportunity to speak and teach around the world. This January, I had the pleasure of traveling to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to speak and teach a short course on OpenACC and CUDA at KAUST (the King Abdullah University of … [Read more...]