[Crib-list] SPEAKER: DAVID KIRK (NVIDI) -- Computational Research in Boston Seminar -- Friday, 10/05/2007

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T O D A Y . . .


 		COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON SEMINAR

Date:		FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2007
Time:		12:30 PM
Location:	Building 32, Room 155 (Stata Center)

(Pizza and beverages will be provided at 12:15 PM.)


Title:		NVIDIA CUDA Software and GPU Parallel
 		Computing Architecture


Speaker:	DAVID KIRK  (NVIDI)


ABSTRACT:

In the past, graphics processors were special purpose hardwired application 
accelerators, suitable only for conventional rasterization-style graphics 
applications.  Modern GPUs are now fully programmable, massively parallel 
floating point processors.  This talk will describe NVIDIA's massively 
multithreaded computing architecture and CUDA software for GPU computing. The 
architecture is a scalable, highly parallel architecture that delivers high 
throughput for data-intensive processing.  Although not truly general-purpose 
processors, GPUs can now be used for a wide variety of compute-intensive 
applications beyond graphics.

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