The 2009 SPEEDUP workshop will focus on Multicore computing and Parallel Languages. Topics include, but are not limited to OpenCL, NVIDIA CUDA, the Cell processor and GPU Computing. The event will take place in Lausanne, Switzerland, on September 7 and 8, 2009. The second day features a tutorial on GPU Computing with NVIDIA CUDA, organized by Dominik Göddeke (TU Dortmund), Robert Strzodka (Max Planck Institute Informatik) and Christian Sigg (NVIDIA).

The paper deadline for the Minisymposium on GPU Computing at the 8th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics has been extended to April 30. The minisymposium is organized by Jose R. Herrero, Enrique S. Quintana-Orti and Robert Strzodka, and will take place September 13-16 2009, in Wroclaw, Poland.

PPAM is also happy to announce a full day tutorial on GPU Computing, organized by Robert Strzodka and Dominik Göddeke. The program and list of speakers will be available soon.

This workshop,  hosted by eResearch SA and to be presented by Mark Harris (NVIDIA) with Dragan Dimitrovici (Xenon Systems), aims to provide a detailed introduction to GPU computing with CUDA and NVIDIA GPUs such as the Tesla series of high-performance computing processors.

The workshop will be held from 9:00-13:00 on Tuesday 28th April, in the Henry Ayers Room, Ayers House
288 North Terrace, Adelaide (opposite the Royal Adelaide Hospital).

CUDA is NVIDIA’s revolutionary parallel computing architecture for GPUs. The available software tools include a C compiler for developers to build applications, as well as useful libraries for high-performance computing (BLAS, FFT, etc). Several widely-used scientific applications have been ported to run on GPUs using CUDA. This half-day workshop will provide an introduction to the CUDA architecture, programming model, and the programming environment of C for CUDA, as well as an overview of the Tesla GPU architecture, a live programming demo, and strategies for optimizing CUDA applications for the GPU. The workshop will also include a brief presentation of some of the current NVIDIA hardware offerings for GPU computing using CUDA.

The workshop is free, but space is limited. For complete details and registration, visit the workshop web page or download the brochure.

This series of free web seminars (“webinars”) starting April 15^th 2009 will cover the basics of data-parallel computing on GPUs using NVIDIA’s CUDA architecture. Tutorials will be presented by the NVIDIA Developer Technology team and will cover many topics including C for CUDA, programming with the OpenCL API , using DirectX Compute and performance optimization techniques.

Webinar topics, schedules and registration information will be updated regularly. Pre-registration is required. Please follow the links provided (after clicking “read the rest of this entry”), and registration details will be emailed back upon successful registration. Read the rest of this entry »

NVIDIA will host a full-day Tutorial on “High Performance Computing with CUDA” (Module M02) at Supercomputing 2008 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas on Monday, Nov. 17, 2008 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. SC08 is the international conference on high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. The tutorial is designed to give attendees a thorough introduction to the CUDA programming model. NVIDIA engineers will partner with academic and industrial researchers to present CUDA and discuss its advanced use for science and engineering applications. The morning session will introduce CUDA programming and the CUDA execution and memory models, and explore the uses of CUDA with many brief examples from diverse HPC domains. The afternoon session will cover more advanced topics and include real-world case studies from domain scientists using CUDA for computational biology, computational fluid dynamics and seismic imaging. Joining NVIDIA in this tutorial will be John Stone and Jim Phillips from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Scott Morton from Hess Corporation, a leading global energy company, engaged in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas. For more information on the CUDA tutorial visit here and if you would like to attend, please register here.

In this tutorial, NVIDIA engineers and academic and industrial researchers will present CUDA and discuss its advanced use for science and engineering. The tutorial will demonstrate CUDA with traditional HPC examples including BLAS, FFT, and integration with Fortran and high-level languages (MATLAB, Mathematica, Python) and describe in detail the programming model at the heart of it all. It will then turn to advanced topics including optimizing CUDA programs, CUDA floating point performance and accuracy, and CUDA programming strategies and tips. Finally the tutorial will present detailed case studies in which domain scientists will describe their experience using CUDA to accelerate mature, deployed, real-world science codes. Scientists throughout industry and academia are already using CUDA to achieve dramatic speedups on production and research codes (see http://www.nvidia.com/cuda for a list of codes, academic papers and commercial packages based on CUDA). Presenters include Massimiliano Fatica (NVIDIA), Mark Harris (NVIDIA), Patrick LeGresley (NVIDIA), and Jim Phillips (UIUC). Follow this link to register.

Slides from the 2007 AstroGPU conference, held at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton last November, have been posted to the AstroGPU Website.

ARCS 2008, the 21st Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, is proud to announce a full day GPGPU tutorial, covering concepts, building blocks and case studies with a special focus on NVIDIA CUDA GPU Computing technology. ARCS is held in Dresden, Germany, on February 25-28, 2008. For more details, please visit The ARCS 2008 Website.

On Sunday November 11 2007 at SC07 in Reno NVIDIA will host a full-day tutorial on CUDA. In this tutorial NVIDIA engineers will partner with academic and industrial researchers to present CUDA and discuss its advanced use for science and engineering domains. The morning session will introduce CUDA programming and the execution and memory models at its heart, motivate the use of CUDA with many brief examples from different HPC domains, and discuss fundamental algorithmic building blocks in CUDA. The afternoon will discuss advanced issues such as optimization and “tips & tricks”, and include real-world case studies from domain scientists using CUDA (VMD and NAMD Molecular Dynamics and Oil and Gas).
Follow this link for more information: http://sc07.supercomputing.org/schedule/event_detail.php?evid=11034.

Videos of all presentations in the GPGPU Tutorials held at SIGGRAPH 2004 and SIGGRAPH 2005 are online. These courses are an excellent resource for beginners in GPGPU programming. SIGGRAPH 2004 GPGPU Course (Course Web Page). SIGGRAPH 2005 GPGPU Course (Course Web Page).