{"id":1079,"date":"2011-07-20T13:31:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T11:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblogs.uct.ac.za\/blog\/big-bytes\/2011\/07\/20\/gpgpus"},"modified":"2015-08-14T13:23:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T11:23:32","slug":"gpgpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2011\/07\/20\/gpgpus\/","title":{"rendered":"GPGPUs"},"content":{"rendered":"We attended a GPGPU programming course at the Center for High Performance Computing this week.\u00a0 The course focused on new developments in OpenCL and included some very interesting presentations.\u00a0 We had a also had a brief discussion on the new CUDA 4.0 standard which has some very powerful features.\r\n\r\nThanks to the South African National Space Assosiaction for organizing and also to the CHPC for hosting the venue and providing lunch.\r\n\r\nWhile our cluster does not yet incorporate GPU capability we are looking\r\nat implementing a proof of concept, so if there's anyone out\r\nthere with a valid use-case, please contact us.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/GPU.png\" alt=\"GPU\" border=\"0\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nUpdate: apparently there is a test server with n x GPU cards heading our way where 1&lt;n&lt;=4\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We attended a GPGPU programming course at the Center for High Performance Computing this week.&nbsp; The course focused on new developments in OpenCL and included some very interesting presentations.&nbsp; We had a also had a brief discussion on the new CUDA 4.0 standard which has some very powerful features.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the South African National Space Assosiaction for organizing and also to the CHPC for hosting the venue and providing lunch. <\/p>\n<p>While our cluster does not yet incorporate GPU capability we are looking<br \/>\n at implementing a proof of concept, so if there&#8217;s anyone out<br \/>\nthere with a valid use-case, please contact us.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uct.ac.za\/gallery\/1253\/GPU.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"GPU\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Update: apparently there is a test server with n x GPU cards heading our way where 1&lt;n&lt;=4 <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>GPGPUs - UCT HPC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2011\/07\/20\/gpgpus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GPGPUs - UCT HPC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We attended a GPGPU programming course at the Center for High Performance Computing this week.&nbsp; The course focused on new developments in OpenCL and included some very interesting presentations.&nbsp; We had a also had a brief discussion on the new CUDA 4.0 standard which has some very powerful features.&nbsp; Thanks to the South African National Space Assosiaction for organizing and also to the CHPC for hosting the venue and providing lunch. 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