I'm pleased to invite you to next Wednesday's IIC Colloquium. Please join us! Rosalind Reid Executive Director, Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing ***************************** David Luebke, Research Scientist, NVIDIA Corporation IIC Colloquium - Accelerating Science with Massively Parallel Computing Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 Time: 4:00 p.m., refreshments at 3:30 p.m. Location: 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Abstract: Modern GPUs (graphics processing units) provide a level of massively parallel computation that was once the preserve of supercomputers. NVIDIA’s CUDA platform provides a scalable parallel programming model for GPUs consisting of minimal but expressive changes to the familiar C/C++ language, allowing programmers to focus on parallel algorithms rather than the mechanics of a new programming language. Using this platform, researchers across science and engineering are accelerating applications by up to two orders of magnitude. This talk will motivate GPU computing and explore the transition it represents in massively parallel computing from supercomputing to commodity "manycore" hardware available to all. In addition to sampling results to date, the colloquium will address the goals, implications, and key abstractions of the CUDA programming model and future directions for GPU computing. More information: http://iic.harvard.edu _______________________________________________ iic-colloquium mailing list iic-colloquium(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-colloquium