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GPU-accelerated Biomedical Image Analysis

On 1st February 1, 2010, Won-Ki Jeong, Research Scientist at Harvard IIC/SEAS, gave a SciGPU lunchtime seminar entitled:

“GPU-accelerated Biomedical Image Analysis”

Download his presentation here [20MB].

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Determining the detailed connections in brain circuits is a fundamental unsolved problem in neuroscience. Understanding this circuitry will enable brain scientists to confirm or refute existing models, develop new ones, and come closer [click on link for more...]

Astronomy

“Harnessing fun for serious science,” from the Harvard Gazette

A popular account of the SciGPU project has been posted online by the Harvard News Office.

Writer Alvin Powell describes the “trio of projects at Harvard whose massive computing needs have prompted investigators to join forces to pioneer new computing techniques that will benefit not just radio astronomy, but quantum chemistry and neuroscience as well.”

In interviews [click on link for more...]

Astronomy

Undergraduates enjoy the first "summer of SciGPU"

The SciGPU collaborators welcomed four students who came to Harvard for NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates during summer 2009: Dominik Gothe (University of South Carolina; astronomy), Matthias Lee (Wentworth Institute; time series analysis), Beatrice Perez (University of Puerto Rico; quantum chemistry), and Bo Wang (University of Pittsburgh; neuroscience). The SciGPU REU students were among [click on link for more...]

Astronomy

SciGPU Research Experience for Undergraduates Presentations

Our four summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) students (Dominik Gothe, Matthias Lee, Beatrice Perez and Bo Wang) recently gave excellent presentations on the research they conducted this summer. Their work covered the Murchison Widefield Array, Quantum Chemistry, the Connectome and the Time Series Centre. Copies of their talks are now available for download.

Gothe_MWA_Areas
Lee_GPU_Searching
Perez_Quantum_Chemistry
Wang_Segmenting_Axons

Astronomy

Harvard Recognized as CUDA Center of Excellence

The following news was released April 2, 2009 by NVIDIA Corporation. The company’s release can be found here.

SANTA CLARA, CA—NVIDIA Corporation, inventor of the GPU, today announced that Harvard University has been recognized as a CUDA Center of Excellence for its commitment to teaching GPU Computing and its integration of CUDA™-enabled GPUs for a host [click on link for more...]