A new GPU and high-performance computing meetup group has been formed in Pune, India.   The informal special interest group will bring together GPU users from all fields and experience levels in India, including academicians, researchers, scientists, device manufacturers, system integrators, service providers and all early adopters of HPC & GPU computing. The group, hosted on Meetup.com, will provide HPC and GPU computing enthusiasts in India a comprehensive platform to track industry trends and engage with each other, discussing the latest developments in the field.

The group will have a core group of key academicians to lead and moderate discussions. The site will feature a bank of research papers, case studies and posts on the latest GPU-related technological developments. The meetup group will also encourage users to engage and interact over group chats and web conferences.  You can find the group at

http://www.meetup.com/HPC-and-GPU-Computing-Group-India

A new GPU users group is being established in South Africa. The first event will be held June 9, 2011. For more information, see http://www.meetup.com/GPGPU-ZA/

The SoCal GPGPU group has a regular meeting once a month at UCLA, plus other occasional get togethers. Join the group, come to one of the talks, and tell them what you do with GPUs. More Info: http://www.meetup.com/SoCal-GPGPU-and-Commodity-Parallel-Programming-Group/

Following in the footsteps of the highly successful GPU Users meetup groups in Brisbane, Sydney, Perth and Melbourne, Australia, new GPU meetup groups are popping up around the USA and other countries. Professional “meetup” groups have now formed in New York City, Silicon Valley, Boston, Chicago, Albuquerque and Tokyo, bringing practitioners together to discuss the applications, methods, and technical challenges of using GPUs for algorithm acceleration. The events are free to attend. More information can be found at http://gpu.meetup.com/.

Check out our User Groups page for more.

The Australia GPU Users groups are informal special interest groups founded to bring together GPU users from all fields and experience levels to learn and share their ideas and creations at friendly meetings.  There are currently GPU users groups forming in Brisbane, Sydney, and Perth.

The groups will discuss general GPU computing, including GPGPU, CUDA, OpenCL, DirectCompute, DirectX and OpenGL and related technologies. There will be short presentations during the meetings, as well as informal discussions on a range of subjects, including core fundamentals, hardware architectures, parallel programming as well as specific optimisations and also examples of applications from different fields of industry, science and multimedia.

Sign up today: the meetings will allow you to meet others who share your interest in GPUs.

GPGPU.org is maintaining a list of GPU Users groups.  If you have a local GPU users group, please tell us about it!