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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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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.”

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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...]