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

[Shirley Entzminger]

 		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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