June 20, 2024: CUDA Without a PhD

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THURSDAY, June 20, 2024 at 6:30 PM

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Title

CUDA Without a PhD

Abstract

NVIDIA CUDA is a tool kit for development of GPU accelerated applications. For specific types of applications and computational patterns the GPU allows you to deploy thousands of cores for processing in a very cost effective manner.

While getting the full benefit of GPU acceleration can take a considerable amount of knowledge and effort, considerable speedups can be achieved with minimal program changes.

This talk provides an overview of what CUDA is, where it can be effective, and then does a deep dive to convert a simple, sequential data processing loop running as a single thread on the CPU into a massively parallel operation running on the GPU.

Speaker Bio

Lloyd Moore is the founder and owner of CyberData Corporation, which provides consulting services in the aerospace, robotics, machine vision and industrial automation fields. Lloyd has worked in software industry for 35 years. His formal training is in biological-based artificial intelligence, electronics, and psychology. Lloyd is also currently the president of the Northwest C++ User’s Group and an organizer of the Seattle Robotics Society Robothon events.

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