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GPU-Accelerated Video Processing This week’s Spotlight is on Jesse Rosenzweig, CTO and co-founder of Elemental Technologies. Jesse spearheads Elemental’s application development, quality assurance and R&D groups. Here’s an extract from our interview:

NVIDIA: Jesse, what is your role at Elemental?

Jesse: I act as the glue between customers, partners, and our engineering, marketing and QA teams. In addition, I lead an R&D team that constantly builds prototypes and scopes out future technologies to integrate into our products. During Elemental’s early days, I wrote video codec CUDA code (although I imagine there aren’t many of my lines left now, given the strength of our CUDA team!).

NVIDIA: How do your products leverage GPU computing?

Jesse: Every pixel of every frame of a video source into our system is decompressed, processed and even recompressed using the GPU and our proprietary video processing pipeline. This allows us to not only get extremely fast high-quality video processing, but also to offload the CPUs to accommodate audio processing, security, content wrapping, database management and content serving while providing a responsive user interface, even during a heavy system load.

NVIDIA: As CTO, why did you choose to work with GPUs?

Jesse: As consumers look to view video on every device imaginable, the demand for video formatting is skyrocketing and scalability is critical. As needed, we can integrate advanced GPUs with more processors and everything will run quicker or process in new, more resource-efficient ways.

NVIDIA: Tell us about Elemental Live.

Jesse: Elemental Live is our solution for processing live video. It allows media companies, such as such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Avail-TVN, ABC News, CBS and others, to deliver real-time content (live events, sports, satellite feeds, etc.) to TVs, PCs, tablets and mobile devices using the latest adaptive streaming technologies from Adobe, Apple and Microsoft.

- Read the complete interview here

(Would you like to be in the CUDA Spotlight? Email cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com)

Stanford Named CUDA Center of Excellence

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Stanford is now a CUDA Center of Excellence. The Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering (ICME) at the School of Engineering will spearhead the program in partnership with other departments, including the Dept. of Computer Science (CS), the Center for Computational Earth and Environmental Sciences (CEES) and the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Flow Physics Division.
- See: http://bit.ly/qvNBHE

PGI CUDA-x86 Shipping
PGI is shipping its CUDA C/C++ compiler for x86. PGI CUDA-x86 processes CUDA C and CUDA C++ as a native parallel programming language to run on multi-core x86. With this release, developers can compile and execute a variety of CUDA C and CUDA C++ codes to run on x86 today. A 15-day free trial is available.
- See: www.pgroup.com/cuda-x86

FastROCS for Drug Discovery
FastROCS is now publicly available from OpenEye Scientific Software. FastROCS is an extremely fast 3D molecular shape comparison program running on Tesla GPUs. It was developed in collaboration with industry partners including Abbott Labs and Pfizer.
- See: www.eyesopen.com/fastrocs

Encryption with CUDA
Xoom Data Services announced its CudaCrypt encryption software, which uses the GPU to process large files like video and engineering plans with “military-grade” security. CEO Robert Gagnon says: “We move data from point A to point B and we make sure people can’t steal it in the middle.”
- See: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/6/prweb8594876.htm

GPUs at NASA
SC Online reported that simulations of Earth and space phenomena at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are getting a boost from GPUs. Early results demonstrate potential for significant speedups with systems ranging from one to four GPUs in labs, up to a 64-GPU IBM iDataPlex cluster.
- See: http://bit.ly/pjETOh

GPUs in the Geosciences
A session on “High-Resolution Modeling in the Geosciences Using GPU and Many-Core Architectures” will be held at the AGU (American Geophysical Union) meeting in December. Session leaders are Matthew Knepley, Univ. of Chicago; David Yuen, Univ. of Minnesota; and Adam Schultz, Oregon State Univ. Session abstracts are due August 4.
- See: http://sites.agu.org/fallmeeting/scientific-program/session-search/530

GPUs in Military & Embedded Apps
CUDA: Week in Review readers are cordially invited to attend a special webinar on July 26. The presentation will discuss CPU-GPU hardware deployments in military and embedded applications. The moderator is Jeff Child, Editor-In-Chief of COTS Journal. He will be joined by Michael Bowling, President of Trenton Systems and Devang Sachdev of NVIDIA.
- Register: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/409656202
- See complete webinar schedule: www.nvidia.com/webinars

Drexel Takes Off to Big     Science Frontiers with GPUs, by Devang Sachdev
Cornell Collaboration     Explores GPU Computing + MATLAB, by David     Lifka, Cornell
Joining Forces with     Beijing Genomics Institute, by Kimberly Powell
CUDA Engineer Takes Busman’s Holiday in Turkey, by Ian     Buck
Fight Global Warming with GPU Computing and C++, by     Olivier Giroux

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NEW: Each week we highlight sessions from GTC 2010 and ISC 2011. Here are our picks for this week:

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Using CUDA to Accelerate Radar Image Processing (GTC 10)
Aaron Rogan – Neva Ridge Technologies
http://nvidia.fullviewmedia.com/gtc2010/0923-k-2003.html

CUDA Fortran and CUDA Libraries (ISC 2011)
Massimiliano Fatica – NVIDIA
www.nvidia.com/content/PDF/isc-2011/Fatica.pdf

NEW: Pacific Biosciences in Menlo Park, Calif., is seeking a High-Performance Computing Engineer to be responsible for technical strategy development of an HPC environment embedded in a DNA sequencing machine. HPC background and CUDA experience required.
- See: http://bit.ly/q5mYyv

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If you are travelling to any of these locations, feel free to drop in. Visitors are welcome.
New York Meetup – July 25, 6:00 pm
New Mexico Meetup – July 26, 7:00 pm
Boston Meetup – Aug. 4, 6:00 pm
Silicon Valley Meetup – Aug. 15, 6:15 pm
Wash. DC Meetup – Aug. 18, 4:00 pm (inaugural meeting)
Austin Meetup – Aug. 19, 6:00 pm

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- GTC Workshop Japan

July 22, 2011, Tokyo

Hosted by NVIDIA, with the Tokyo Institute of Technology

http://www.nv-jp-event.jp/gtc-workshop2011/

- Banking with GPGPUs: Increased Performance, Lowered Costs (Training Workshop)

July 25-27, 2011, London, UK

Note: Taught by experts from Excelian and Cranfield University

Contact: james.heath (at) excelian.com

August 2011

- Banking with GPGPUs: Increased Performance, Lowered Costs (Training Workshop)

Aug. 8-11, 2011, London, UK

Note: Taught by experts from Excelian and Cranfield University

Contact: james.heath (at) excelian.com

- LAMMPS Users’ Workshop

Aug. 9-11, 2011, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Learn more about LAMMPS: http://lammps.sandia.gov/index.html

- NEW: Par Lab Boot Camp (Short Course on Parallel Computing)

Aug. 15-17, 2011, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California

http://conta.cc/njsSB9

- NEW: Proven Algorithmic Techniques for Manycore Processors (Hands-On Course)

Aug. 15-19, 2011 (at multiple locations via videoconferencing)

Note: Sponsored by the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering (VSCSE)

www.vscse.org

September 2011

- Advanced Numerical Methods on GPUs

Mini-symposium at ENUMATH 2011

Sept. 5-9, 2011, Univ. of Leicester, Leicester, UK

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/mathematics/research/enumath2011/minisymposia

- Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2011)

Sept. 11-14, 2011, Torun, Poland

Note: Scientific Computing with GPUs tutorial, incl. session by Tim Schroeder, NVIDIA

http://ppam.pl/tutorials/21

- Geospatial Summit

Sept. 13-14, 2011, Herndon, Virginia

http://cfp.foseinstitute.org/gis2011

- NEW: Rapid Problem Solving Using Thrust (Webinar)

Sept. 14, 2011

Presented by Nathan Bell, NVIDIA

Note: Thrust is a library that enables programmers to develop high-performance applications on CUDA with minimal effort.

http://www.gputechconf.com/object/gtc-express-webinar.html

- SPIE Conference on High-Performance Computing in Remote Sensing

Sept. 19-22, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

http://spie.org/rs11

- SEG (Society of Exploration Geophysicists) Annual Meeting

Sept. 18-23, 2011, San Antonio, Texas

http://www.seg.org/events/annual-meeting/sanantonio2011/am2011techprogram

(To list an event, email: cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com)

Downloads	back to the top
– CUDA 4.0: www.nvidia.com/getcuda – Parallel Nsight: http://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-parallel-nsight
Webinars
– CUDA: http://developer.nvidia.com/gpu-computing-webinars – Parallel Nsight: http://developer.nvidia.com/developer-webinars

CUDA Registered Developer Program

– Sign up: www.nvidia.com/paralleldeveloper

CUDA GPUs

– List of CUDA-enabled GPUs: www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_gpus.html

CUDA on the Web

– See previous issues of CUDA: Week in Review: http://is.gd/cBXbg
– 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
– Check out the NVIDIA Research page: www.nvidia.com/research

CUDA Recommended Reading

– Future of Computing Performance: http://bit.ly/hYqH2H
– Supercomputing for the Masses, Part 21: http://is.gd/Fj56gf
– CUDA books: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_books.html

CUDA Recommended Viewing

– The Third Pillar of Science: www.nvidia.com/object/race-for-better-science.html

– GTC 2010 presentations: www.nvidia.com/gtc

– SC10 presentations: www.nvidia.com/object/sc10_theater.html

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Tygodniowy newsletter “CUDA: Week in Review.” – 01.07.2011

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Fri., July 1, 2011, Issue #57

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WELCOME
Welcome to CUDA: Week in Review, an online news summary for the worldwide CUDA, GPU computing and parallel programming ecosystem.

CUDA SPOTLIGHT
Dr. Vincent Natoli, Stone Ridge Technology

CUDA TOP STORIES

Microsoft and NVIDIA Host GPU Computing Event

Quantum Chromodynamics and CUDA C

Microway Wins Best New Tech Award

Russia Accelerates Scientific Innovation with GPUs

CONTENTS

CUDA SPOTLIGHT

CUDA DEVELOPER NEWS

NEW ON THE BLOG

REPLAYS OF THE WEEK

CUDA JOBS

GPU MEETUPS

CUDA CALENDAR

CUDA RESOURCES

Follow @GPUComputing on Twitter

GPU-Accelerated Science and Computing

This week’s spotlight is on Dr. Vincent Natoli, president and founder of Stone Ridge Technology.

Dr. Natoli is a computational physicist with 20 years of experience in high performance computing. Previous roles include senior physicist at ExxonMobil Corporation and Technical Director at High Performance Technologies Inc. (HPTi). Here’s a preview of our interview:

NVIDIA: Vincent, tell us a bit about Stone Ridge Technology.

Vincent: Stone Ridge provides products and services to the HPC market. I had the idea for the company back in 2002 and started it full time in 2005. I wanted to build a company that solves difficult problems in science and engineering on leading edge hardware platforms. It’s the border between science and computing which I love.

NVIDIA: What services do you provide?

Vincent: Most of our customers are in the oil and gas industry. We port, optimize and develop from scratch high performance technical codes for some of the biggest corporations in the world.

NVIDIA: What advice do you have for developers considering GPU computing?

Vincent: I would say that if performance is important to you then GPU computing is well worth a try. Take a look at CUDA Zone to find a code similar to your own to see what kind of performance you can expect from the GPU. Profile your code and try porting the most significant hotspot first. The potential gain is well worth a few weeks of investigation. Along the way you will learn a lot about your code.

- Read the complete interview here

(Would you like to be in the CUDA Spotlight? Email cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com)

Microsoft and NVIDIA Host C++ GPU Computing Event

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Silicon Valley engineers met at NVIDIA’s headquarters this week to learn about C++ technologies in heterogeneous environments (CPU + GPU). The evening kicked off with a talk by luminary Herb Sutter, chief architect for Windows C++ at Microsoft, speaking about plans to take advantage of GPU acceleration with C++ AMP. NVIDIA experts (Justin Luitjens, Jared Hoberock, Stephen Jones) provided an overview of GPU computing and CUDA to developers from Cisco, eBay, Facebook, Google, MTV, Visa and other companies.

- Read the blog post here.

Quantum Chromodynamics and CUDA C
A recent story in “International Science Grid This Week” points out that researchers worldwide have access to a growing library of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) software ported to run on GPUs. “Lattice QCD is in many ways ideal for GPUs, since the bulk of QCD computations can be broken down into many parallel independent calculations…,” said Mike Clark, a physicist at Harvard.

Microway     Wins Best New Technology Award
Microway, a Tesla Preferred Partner, won the Best New Technology award at     the Life Sciences Technology Insight Summit in Boston. Microway’s Tesla-based     solutions are delivered fully integrated with CUDA and     Linux or Windows. At the Summit, two Microway customers presented their     work:
- Dr. Preston Moore of the University of the Sciences in     Philadelphia discussed GPUs and the
physicochemical properties of biological membranes.
- Dr. John Wolfgang of Mass General Hospital spoke about     GPU-based radiotherapy visualization
for cancer patient treatment.

Russia Accelerates Scientific Innovation with GPU Supercomputers
Moscow State University is upgrading its Lomonosov system with Tesla GPUs to be one of the world’s fastest supercomputers. The upgraded system couples 1,554 NVIDIA Tesla X2070 GPUs with the same number of quad-core CPUs, to deliver an expected 1.3 petaflops of peak performance.

CST Adds New HPC Capabilities
Computer Simulation Technology (CST) announced CST MICROWAVE STUDIO v2011 SP3, with support for Tesla GPUs. CST MWS enables fast analysis of high frequency devices such as antennas, allowing shorter development cycles and virtual prototyping.

MATLAB Updates
MATLAB made the prerelease of MATLAB R2011b available to existing MATLAB Parallel Computing Toolbox licensees, adding a host of new GPU features. A new MATLAB-related post on the Accelereyes blog discusses “Chan-Vese Active Contours on the GPU.” Active Contours are mathematical models that enable detection of objects within images.

ISC 2011 Content Available for Download
Visit the NVIDIA ISC event page to download presentations from the show including the industry briefing on GPU computing and the CUDA tutorial.

Publications from NVIDIA
Check out the new CUDA 4.0 Library Performance Overview and white paper on Sparse Triangular Linear Systems.

Supercomputing ‘Energy Wall’ – NVIDIA Helps Scale It     – By Sumit Gupta
ISC 2011: Europe Flexes Its GPU Supercomputing     Muscles – By Andy Walsh
CUDA Now Available For Multiple x86 Processors     – By Sumit Gupta
Microsoft Going All-in On GPU Computing     – By Sanford Russell

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NEW: Each week we highlight sessions from GTC 2010 and SC10. Here are our picks for this week:

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State of the Art in GPU Data-Parallel Algorithm Primitives (GTC 10)
Mark Harris – NVIDIA
http://nvidia.fullviewmedia.com/gtc2010/0921-a5-2084.html (streaming)

Large-Scale GPU Computing of Multi-Phase Flow (SC10)
Wei Ge – Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
www.nvidia.com/content/PDF/sc_2010/theater/Ge_SC10.pdf

NEW: Varian Medical Systems in Palo Alto, Calif., is seeking a graduate student intern with CUDA programming experience. Familiarity with CBCT (cone beam computed tomography) reconstruction algorithms is required.
- See: www.varian.com/us/corporate/careers/

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If you are travelling to any of these cities, feel free to     drop in. Visitors are welcome.
Boston Meetup     – July 7, 6:00 pm
Austin Meetup     – July 18, 6:00 pm
Silicon Valley     Meetup – July 18, 6:15 pm
Australian Tele-Meetup     – July 21, 4:00 pm
New York Meetup     – July 28, 6:00 pm

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Join us on July 12 for a special webinar on CUDA Global Memory Usage and Strategy, followed by a live Q&A session. In the webinar, Justin Luitjens of NVIDIA will describe the CUDA Memory Model, focusing on global memory and strategies to leverage available bandwidth. Other upcoming webinars include CUDA Shared Memory and Cache (July 19) and CUDA Warps and Occupancy Considerations (July 26).
- See schedule here: www.nvidia.com/webinars

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- NEW: Parallel Nsight and Microsoft Visual Studio Webinar

July 5, 2011 (in Russian)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rudevnews/archive/2011/06/23/gpu-visual-studio.aspx

- CUDA GPU Programming Workshop

July 2-3, 2011 Berlin, Germany

http://cuda.eventbrite.com/

- 2011 World Congress on Engineering (WCE 2011)

July 6-8, 2011, London, England

http://www.iaeng.org/WCE2011/ICPDC2011.html

- Lattice 2011 Conference

July 11-16, 2011, Lake Tahoe, California

https://latt11.llnl.gov/

- NEW: CUDA Global Memory Usage and Strategy Webinar

July 12, 2011, 10:00 am pacific

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/768504595

- Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)

July 12-16, 2011 Dublin, Ireland

www.sigevo.org/gecco-2011/index.html

- World Congress in C.S., Computer Engineering, Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP’11)

July 18-21, 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada

www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws

- Application Accelerators in High Performance Computing (SAAHPC 2011)

July 19-21, 2011, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee

http://illinois.edu/lb/article/2100/45663

- GTC Workshop Japan

July 22, 2011, Tokyo

Hosted by NVIDIA, with the Tokyo Institute of Technology

http://www.nv-jp-event.jp/gtc-workshop2011/

- NEW: Banking with GPGPUs: Increased Performance, Lowered Costs (Training Workshop)

July 25-27, 2011, London, UK

Note: Taught by experts from Excelian and Cranfield University

Contact: james.heath (at) excelian.com

Aug. – Sept. 2011

- LAMMPS Users’ Workshop

Aug. 9-1, 2011, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Learn more about LAMMPS: http://lammps.sandia.gov/index.html

- NEW: Banking with GPGPUs: Increased Performance, Lowered Costs (Training Workshop)

August 8-11, 2011, London, UK

Note: Taught by experts from Excelian and Cranfield University

Contact: james.heath (at) excelian.com

- Advanced Numerical Methods on GPUs

Mini-symposium at ENUMATH 2011

Sept. 5-9, 2011, Univ. of Leicester, Leicester, UK

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/mathematics/research/enumath2011/minisymposia

- Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2011)

Sept. 11-14, 2011, Torun, Poland

Note: Scientific Computing with GPUs tutorial, incl. session by Tim Schroeder, NVIDIA

http://ppam.pl/tutorials/21

- Geospatial Summit

Sept. 13-14, 2011, Herndon, Virginia

http://cfp.foseinstitute.org/gis2011

- SPIE Conference on High-Performance Computing in Remote Sensing

Sept. 19-22, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

http://spie.org/rs11

- SEG (Society of Exploration Geophysicists) Annual Meeting

Sept 18-23, 2011, San Antonio, Tex.

http://www.seg.org/events/annual-meeting/sanantonio2011/am2011techprogram

(To list an event, email: cuda_week_in_review@nvidia.com)

Downloads	back to the top
– CUDA 4.0: www.nvidia.com/getcuda – Parallel Nsight: http://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-parallel-nsight
Webinars
– CUDA: http://developer.nvidia.com/gpu-computing-webinars – Parallel Nsight: http://developer.nvidia.com/developer-webinars

CUDA Registered Developer Program

– Sign up: www.nvidia.com/paralleldeveloper

CUDA GPUs

– List of CUDA-enabled GPUs: www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_gpus.html

CUDA on the Web

CUDA Recommended Reading

– Future of Computing Performance: http://bit.ly/hYqH2H
– Supercomputing for the Masses, Part 21: http://is.gd/Fj56gf
– CUDA books: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_books.html

CUDA Recommended Viewing

– The Third Pillar of Science: www.nvidia.com/object/race-for-better-science.html

– GTC 2010 presentations: www.nvidia.com/gtc

– SC10 presentations: www.nvidia.com/object/sc10_theater.html

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