Concurrent with SC09, PGI is offering the tutorial “GPU Programming with the PGI Accelerator Programming Model and PGI CUDA Fortran”. The tutorial is Monday, 16 November, 2009 in Portland, a few ...

Over at Dr. Dobbs, Rob Farber writes that, when used correctly, atomic operations can help implement a wide range of generic data structures and algorithms in the massively threaded GPU programming ...

Every few years or so, a development in computing results in a sea change and a need for specialized workers to take advantage of the new technology. Whether that’s COBOL in the 60s and 70s, HTML in ...

As the name Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) suggests, GPU processors are designed for image and video processing on computers–but they’re also optimized for extremely fast, highly parallel computation ...

Programmer Bryan O'Sullivan has a great summary of NVIDIA's new CUDA technology. O'Sullivan actually sat down and did what few of us have done so far, and that's read all the way through NVIDIA's ...