SC Conference - Activity Details

Sumit Gupta  (NVIDIA)

GPUs and Software Tools for Heterogenous Architectures

Thursday,  01:30PM - 02:00PM

Room C124

Science continues to demand an increasing amount of computing performance, whether it be to study biochemical processes or to simulate advanced engineering systems. GPUs are an exciting new development in the high-performance computing domain that offer a big jump in gigaflop performance and memory bandwidth. GPUs not only enable higher performance clusters, but also enable desktop computers to become much more powerful “supercomputers” that enable a new level of productivity at the desktop. In this talk, we will talk about the application domains that are seeing the big benefits with GPUs, talk about the latest developments using CUDA and OpenCL, the power efficiency benefits of GPUs, present insight into new tools such as a Fortran compiler, libraries, and products that are going to be announced soon, and also discuss some of the challenges of GPU computing.