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This is a website for an emerging community whose shared goal is harnessing the power of general-purpose programming of graphics processing units to accelerate data-intensive science. The Harvard-based SciGPU community shares knowledge through the site and informal seminars, as well as formal collaborations and publications.

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SciGPU-MGEMM paper accepted in `Computing in Science and Engineering'

Our recent paper, entitled, `Accelerating correlated quantum chemistry calculations using graphical processing units’, by Mark A. Watson, Roberto Olivares-Amaya, Richard G. Edgar, Tomas Arias, and Alan Aspuru-Guzik, has been accepted for the special issue of Computing in Science and Engineering, `SI:Jul/Aug 2010 – High Performance Computing with Accelerators’.

Our manuscript pre-print is available here.

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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...]

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Unraveling the mysteries of quarks: Ron Babich’s SciGPU seminar

Ron Babich from Boston University gave a talk entitled “Unraveling the Mysteries of Quarks with GPUs” for the IIC SciGPU seminar on February 22nd, 2010. Slides are available here.

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Applications for summer research experiences due Feb. 28

Note: The application process is now closed. Thanks for your interest!

SciGPU is pleased to announce summer research opportunities in scientific GPU computing for undergraduates. We seek undergraduates majoring in science and engineering who are interested in developing new algorithms and systems that use GPUs for applications in astronomy, quantum chemistry and neuroscience.

Interested students may apply [click on link for more...]

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Mark Silberstein's SciGPU seminar

Mark Silberstein (Technion) gave a SciGPU talk at Harvard entitled “Efficient sum-product computations on GPUs through software-managed cache” on November 23, 2009. His slides are posted here: SumProductHarvard

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Orders-of-magnitude performance increases in GPU-accelerated correlation of images from the ISS

Dr. Peter Lu (Harvard University, Physics) recently gave a presentation to the SciGPU group based on his work outlined in the journal paper below:

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We implement image correlation, a fundamental component of many real-time imaging and tracking systems, on a graphics processing unit (GPU) using NVIDIAs CUDA. We use our code to analyze images of liquid-gas [click on link for more...]

Astronomy

GPUs used for Real-Time Correlation at the Murchison Wide-field Array Prototype

The Murchison Widefield Array is using a real-time GPU correlator to enable engineering and early science for a 5% prototype. Read more about how this system works! See online coverage of the MWA showcasing GPU computing efficiency, as described at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, San Jose 2009. Take a look at the related talk, [click on link for more...]

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Mixed-precision GPU Krylov solver for lattice QCD

This is a poster that was recently presented at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC).

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Using the CUDA platform we have implemented a mixed precision Krylov solver for the Wilson-Dirac matrix for lattice QCD. The matrix-vector product which accounts for the vast majority of the operations runs in excess of 130 Gflops in single precision on [click on link for more...]

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SciGPU-GEMM v0.8 Download

scigpugemm0.8 – a tarball of the v0.8 release of  the SciGPU-GEMM library.

Matrix-matrix multiplications are common in quantum chemistry calculations, and can benefit enormously from GPU acceleration. Although NVIDIA provides an implementation of the BLAS *GEMM routines with its CUDA distribution, two key problems exist when trying to use these from existing code

Most GPUs in current use have limited [click on link for more...]

Astronomy

A GPU based real-time software correlation system for the Murchison Widefield Array prototype

A paper by:

Randall B. Wayth, Lincoln J. Greenhill (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and
Frank H. Briggs (Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University)

Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) are inexpensive commodity hardware that offer Tflop/s theoretical computing capacity. GPUs are well suited to many compute-intensive tasks including digital signal processing. We describe the implementation and [click on link for more...]