1. Jared Law CUDA: Super-Computing Made Easy

2. Jared Law NVidia CUDA: Why CUDA? What is CUDA? Where/how is CUDA being used? What does CUDA mean to programmers?

3. Jared Law NVidia CUDA: Timeline 1999 – First NVidia Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

4. Jared Law NVidia CUDA: Timeline 1999 – First NVidia Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 2003 –

5. Jared Law NVidia CUDA: Timeline 1999 – First NVidia Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 2003 – GPGPU Computing

6. Jared Law NVidia CUDA: GPGPU Programming Using GPUs as general parallel processors Languages –OpenGL –DirectX –Cg Programmers had to... –Have an intimate knowledge of GPUs –Learn new languages –Translate input to vertex data and shader programs

7. Jared Law NVidia CUDA: Timeline 1999 – First NVidia Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 2003 – GPGPU Computing 2006 – First CUDA-Enabled GPU (GeForce 8800)

8. Jared Law NVidia CUDA: What is it? CUDA -Compute Unified Device Architecture -Departs from the GPGPU model New architecture –G80 (2006) –GT200 (2008) –Fermi (2009) Simplified API using C abstractions –C++ –Fortran –Nexus IDE

9. Jared Law NVidia CUDA: Getting Started CUDA-Enabled Card Required. -www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_gpus.htmlwww.nvidia.com/object/cuda_gpus.html Download the “free” CUDA toolkit and driver. -http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloadshttp://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads Start coding.

10. Jared Law NVidia CUDA: CUDA C Example

11. Jared Law NVidia CUDA: Timeline 1999 – First NVidia Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 2003 – GPGPU Computing 2006 – First CUDA-Enabled GPU (GeForce 8800) 2011 – CUDA is EVERYWHERE!

12. Jared Law NVidia CUDA: Silver Screen 2009 - Avatar 2010 - Iron Man 2, Inception, The Last Airbender, Black Swan

13. Jared Law NVidia CUDA: Consumer Software Video Conversion and Editing (Adobe, Cyberlink) Operating Systems (Windows 7) Design Tools (Agilent) Education (MATLAB) Plenty more at http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_app_tesla.html

14. Jared Law NVidia CUDA: Research Physics Simulation Medical Imaging Life Sciences Computational Fluid Dynamics –www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_apps_flash_new.html#www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_apps_flash_new.html#

15. Jared Law NVidia CUDA: Conclusion Visit www.nvidia.com for more information.www.nvidia.com Any questions? REFERENCES Boyd, C. 2008. Data-parallel computing. ACM Queue 6, 2 (March/April), 30-39. Fatahalian, K. and Houston, M. 2008. Gpus: A closer look. ACM Queue 6, 2 (March/April), 18-28. Mark, W. 2008. Future graphics architectures. ACM Queue 6, 2 (March/April), 54-64. Nickolls, J., Buck, I., Garland, M., and Skadron, K. 2008. Scalable parallel programming. ACM Queue 6, 2 (March/April), 40-53. NVidia 2009. NVIDIA's Next Generation CUDA Compute Architecture: Fermi. NVidia. NVidia 2010. NVIDIA CUDA C Programming Guide. NVidia. Senocak, I., Thibault, J., and Caylor, M. 2009. Rapid-response urban cfd simulations using a gpu computing paradigm on desktop supercomputers. Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment 19.2 (January). Wilkinson, B. and Allen, M. 2005. Parallel Programming: Techniques and Applications Using Networked Workstations and Parallel Computers, 2 ed. Pearson Prentice Hall.