NVIDIA CUDA Superhero Challenge Sparks Competitive Fire for GPU Computing Developers
August 27 2009 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Developers Invited by NVIDIA and TopCoder to Tackle Parallel
Computing with the NVIDIA CUDA Architecture SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
Aug. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NVIDIA Corporation today
announced that it will be working with TopCoder, a competitive
software development community, on the CUDA Superhero Challenge, a
series of contests for computer programmers who will harness the
parallel processing power of the NVIDIA CUDA(TM) architecture to
solve some of computing's biggest challenges. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020613/NVDALOGO) The first
contest, which is open to all eligible developers, begins Sept. 14
and will conclude Sept. 25. $5,000 of prizes will be awarded to
five contest winners, who will be announced at NVIDIA's GPU
Technology Conference being held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose,
Calif., from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, 2009. Additional details about the
CUDA Superhero Challenge can be found at
http://www.topcoder.com/nvidia. "PC architecture has evolved from
central processing on just the CPU to co-processing on the CPU and
the GPU," said Sanford Russell, general manager of the CUDA group
at NVIDIA. "By tapping into the TopCoder community, we can educate
over 200,000 programmers on the advantages parallel programming
offers and fan the flames of the GPU Computing revolution." GPU
Computing is the use of the massively parallel architecture of the
graphics processing unit (GPU) as a computational engine using
high-level languages and APIs, such as C and Fortran, or
programming interfaces, such as DirectCompute and OpenCL. The model
for GPU Computing is to use a CPU and GPU together in a
co-processing computing model. "We have the world's largest
competitive software development community representing more than
200 countries, and they are eager to display their talents in one
of the fastest growing programming areas in the industry," said Rob
Hughes, president and chief operating officer at TopCoder. "We
anticipate that the CUDA Superhero Challenge will generate many
creative approaches to solving computing challenges and will result
in game-changing innovations." To learn more about the NVIDIA CUDA
architecture or to accelerate programming skills for this
challenge, developers are invited to attend NVIDIA Webinar
tutorials and use the extensive self study materials available at
http://www.nvidia.com/cuda. About NVIDIA NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)
awakened the world to the power of computer graphics when it
invented the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999. Since then, it
has consistently set new standards in visual computing with
breathtaking, interactive graphics available on devices ranging
from portable media players to notebooks to workstations. NVIDIA's
expertise in programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel
processing which make supercomputing inexpensive and widely
accessible. Fortune magazine has ranked NVIDIA #1 in innovation in
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architecture and NVIDIA GeForce GPUs; the advantages of parallel
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