NVIDIA Launches Community Website Aimed at Biotech

http://www.genomeweb.com/blog/nvidia-launches-community-website-aimed-biotech

Today NVIDIA is singing from the rooftops about its new “Tesla Bio Workbench,” a community website aimed at spreading the GPU gospel to the life sciences community. Included in the site are links to resources for GPU computing, discussion forums, and a slew of freely available, CUDA-enabled GPU software. Currently, the site offers the following [...]

VMD 1.8.7, Now with CUDA Acceleration

http://www.vizworld.com/2009/08/vmd-1-8-7-now-with-cuda-acceleration/?utm_source=footer&utm_medium=relatedlinks&utm_campaign=layout

One of the key advancements included in VMD 1.8.7 is support for GPU accelerated visualization and analysis, based on NVIDIA CUDA. As reported in several publications, the massively parallel architecture of GPUs makes them ideal devices to accelerate many of the computationally demanding calculations in VMD. The range of acceleration provided by GPUs depends on [...]

Tycrid Forms Prometheus Alliance to Expand Use of GPUs in Bioinformatics

http://www.genomeweb.com/informatics/tycrid-forms-prometheus-alliance-expand-use-gpus-bioinformatics

Tycrid Platform Technologies, a startup founded last year to develop high-performance computing systems based on graphics cards, has launched the Prometheus Alliance — a membership organization focused on promoting new high performance computing solutions in bioinformatics.

The organization’s website does not indicate that the alliance currently has members other than Tycrid.

According to Prometheus Alliance’s mission statement, [...]

MSC.Software and NVIDIA to Revolutionize Simulation-Driven Product Design

http://www.4-traders.com/NVIDIA-CORP-10282/news/NVIDIA-CORP-MSC-Software-and-NVIDIA-to-Revolutionize-Simulation-Driven-Product-Design-13259193/

MSC.Software and NVIDIA to Revolutionize Simulation-Driven Product Design

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – MSC.Software, a leading global provider of simulation software applications and related services, today announced an alliance with NVIDIA to leverage the CUDA(TM) architecture of its Tesla(TM) graphics processing units (GPUs) in a way that will transform simulation-driven product design and development, [...]

Can Competitors Unite as GPU Computing Ushers in a New Age?

Interesting article… I have similar concern.

http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/enderle/can-competitors-unite-as-gpu-computing-ushers-in-a-new-age/?cs=36397#

GPU and Agent Based Simulation at NSF

http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0845284

CAREER: Towards Interactive Simulation of Giga-Scale Agent-Based Models on Graphics Processing Units
This research investigates techniques for efficient simulation of large scale agent-based models (ABMs). ABMs are increasingly being used to understand complex multi-scale behaviors in many natural, built and social systems. Although ABMs have the necessary structure to capture complex model characteristics in these [...]

Nvidia Launches Next GPU Computing Architecture

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2353608,00.asp

Nvidia launched its second-generation GPU computing architecture on Wednesday, code-named “Fermi”. Oak Ridge National Laboratory will design a supercomputer based on the Fermi, an executive said. 

The “Fermi” announcement kicked off Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, which will run the remainder of this week in Silicon Valley.

Fermi will serve as next generation of CUDA, a programming architecture [...]

Thrust: GPU lib patterned after STL

Interesting work. Keep it here as a reference:

http://code.google.com/p/thrust/

Thrust is a CUDA library of parallel algorithms with an interface resembling the C++ Standard Template Library (STL). Thrust provides a flexible high-level interface for GPU programming that greatly enhances developer productivity. Develop high-performance applications rapidly with Thrust!

OpenCurrent, an open source library of CUDA-accelerated PDE solvers over regular grids

This is a great news for CUDA and CFD. See the below news:

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http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=107374

After a long summer of hacking, I’m happy to announce the release of OpenCurrent, an open source library of CUDA-accelerated PDE solvers over regular grids. It includes a second order accurate solver for buoyancy-driven incompressible flows, as well as building blocks from which [...]

NVIDIA Collaborates with Microsoft on High Performance GPU Computing

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nvidia-collaborates-with-microsoft-on-high-performance-gpu-computing-62321757.html

Users Harness the Power of NVIDIA Tesla GPUs for Enterprise Computing on Windows HPC Server 2008

“The coupling of GPUs and CPUs illustrates the enormous power and opportunity of multicore co-processing,” said Dan Reed, corporate vice president of Extreme Computing at Microsoft. “NVIDIA’s work with Microsoft and the Windows HPC Server platform, is helping enable scientists [...]