• Check out the gpucomputing.net documentation file.
• Join the GPU Computing Research Forum which meets via WebEx the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month from 10 -11 AM Central Time beginning September 15.
• GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2010) - Sumit Schedule Available Online

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Featured Stories and Papers

Educational Resources

CUDA U

Be sure to check “CUDA U” at the CUDA Zone for a wide selection of online courses to help you get started programming or teaching CUDA, as well as links to universities teaching CUDA (see below). CUDA U is organized into four sections:

• Introductory CUDA Technical Training Courses
• A full semester graduate-level CUDA course from University of Illinois that you can play on your iPod (see below for direct link to U Illinois), taught by Wen-mei Hwu and David Kirk.
• Universities teaching CUDA courses (see below).
• CUDA Seminars from major events worldwide

Short courses (e.g., summer schools)

• Great Lakes Consortium 2009 Summer School on “Many-Core Processors for Science and Engineering Applications” (August 10-14, 2009)
• Great Lakes Consortium 2008 Summer School on “Accelerators for Science and Engineering Applications: GPUs and Multicores” (August 18-22, 2008)
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  NVIDIA Parallel Nsight 1.0 Rolls out !!

  
  

  NVIDIA Parallel Nsight is finally released

  This represents a major milestone in bringing seamless development and debugging of hetrogenous code - Multi-core CPU and Massively parallel GPU code can be debugged with powerful tools
   
  Parallel Nsight is compatible with both CUDA C and OpenCL.
   
  Find out all the details here:
  http://www.nvidia.com/ParallelNsight
   
  There is a powerful version available free of charge - and a professional version  for a small additional fee.
  Be the first to start using the full released version - download a copy today.
  
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  Stanford parallel programming course available online for free.

  
  

  Standford School of Engineering has posted a full parallel programming course online.

  Its a full 10 week course.
   
  This is the link to the full press release: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/april/engineering-cuda-course-042210.html
  Here is the course home page: http://code.google.com/p/stanford-cs193g-sp2010/
   
  As it happens it also uses the new Kirk-Hwu book as the course text book.
  
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  FREE GPU Computing Workshop in Adelaide, South Austrialia

  
  
  eResearch SA, XENON Systems and NVIDIA invite you to attend a free workshop on GPU computing with CUDA. The workshop will be held at 1:00PM on Tuesday 10 August 2010 at Mawson Lakes, in the Mawson Centre Lecture Theatre MC1-02.
  Register now by visiting: http://nvidia.eventbrite.com
  
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  Get CUDA Certified

  
  
  NVIDIA has launched its first CUDA Certification program.
  Be one of the first Certified CUDA Programmers - find out the full details at www.nvidia.com/certification
  This exam tests candidates CUDA C programming and optimization skills. This 3 hour test can be taken at over 6500 test centers in over 165 countries.
  Discounts are available for companies planning to certify 6 engineers or more. General questions or applications for bulk discounts can be addressed to certification@nvidia.com
   
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