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Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference 2011

February 11, 2011 by Raj Agrawal 1 Comment

Conference to Feature High-Performance Computing Symposium Co-Hosted by Los Alamos National Lab and NVIDIA.

NVIDIA today announced that the third annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) will return to San Jose’s McEnery Convention Center from Oct. 11-14, 2011. In addition, Los Alamos National Laboratory will co-locate its Accelerated High Performance Computing (HPC) Symposium at the conference. Last year’s GTC offered more than 280 hours of content intended primarily for computational scientists, engineers and developers who want to better understand how the GPU is transforming scientific, visual and technical computing. Attendance at the 2010 event grew more than 50 percent, and further growth is anticipated this year. With increased global awareness surrounding supercomputing, and its importance to the advancement of science, visualization and innovation, this year’s GTC promises to be an event not to be missed.

GTC has moved to the top of the annual agenda for the scientific and technical GPU computing community, said Bill Dally, NVIDIA’s chief scientist.

A leading U.S. national security research institution, Los Alamos National Laboratory has been hosting the Accelerated HPC Symposium as a stand-alone event with the goal of bringing together world leaders in supercomputing to share knowledge and help solve the world’s most crucial technology challenges. This event will now take place during GTC 2011, and will be co-hosted by Los Alamos National Lab and NVIDIA.

Ben Bergen, research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, said, The growing success of GTC makes it a natural venue for co-hosting the Accelerated HPC Symposium.

This event draws senior scientists from national research labs across the globe, and their interests in hardware and software development make for a perfect match with GTC.

It’s rare to attend a conference where there is such a broad a range of research disciplines represented, said Klaus Schulten, Swanlund Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

It is testament to the dramatic effects the GPU is having on complex scientific problems that an event like this is possible.

Many of the sponsors and exhibitors from GTC 2011 have already secured their spot, including Microsoft, Supermicro, PNY, Adobe, Next IO, GE Intelligent Platforms, AMAX, Appro, The Portland Group, and Wolfram Research. Further information on GTC2011 is available at www.gputechconf.

Nvidia’s 3D Technology Product Line Now In India

November 12, 2010 by Raj Agrawal 3 Comments

It’s 3D, it’s realistic, it’s awesome and little heavy on the pockets.

Nvidia is popular for it’s extensive range of GPUs and it has recently launched a new product line targeting the mainstream Indian market. With the tremendous success of 3D movies like Avatar and many others, also considering the numerous festive seasons in line, this is indeed a great time to launch Nvidia’s new product line in India. Nvidia has partnered with the leading global brands making the 3D entertainment systems easily available for the Indian masses with introducing 3D monitors, 3D Cameras, Projectors, Notebooks and Desktops.

I had a opportunity to witness almost the entire product line at the Nvidia’s promotional event and perhaps the most interesting product I came across were the 3D enabled – Gaming Computers. The working is pretty simple, an emitter which is connected to the computer communicates with the USB powered 3D ‘Active’ glasses which successfully takes the usual gaming experience to the next level! I must say that I was blown away with the 3D gaming experience as it was much superior than my expectation. The reason behind the awesomeness of Nvidia’s 3D gaming is because of the Active 3D glasses it uses rather than the conventional Passive ones found in many cheaper alternatives.

Rather a more interesting product Nvidia now offers is the NVIDIA® 3DTV Play™ which allows.users to connect NVIDIA 3D Vision™ enabled notebooks and desktops to 3D HDTVs for the ultimate high-definition, big-screen entertainment experience. This means that 3D Games, 3D Photos and Blu-ray 3D Movies can now be easily experienced with Nvidia Geforce GPU computers connected to HDMI 1.4 3D HDTVs.

The only shortcomings I witnessed is the ‘wireless’ technology these Active 3D glasses are made with. The glasses have to be in the range of the data emitted. Any break ups in the links between the glass and the emitter can cause the screen of the glasses to flicker which can be uncomfortable. Secondly, the price of the glasses is not very consumer friendly. The glasses can be priced at Rs. 7,000/- appx each and the number of glasses bundled with the 3D system bought is entirely dependent on the retailers. This makes the product line more of a luxury and still a niche.

Being a new initiative in the Indian market, with time and R&D, it is obvious that the entire package of the 3D systems will soon replace the current 2D entertainment systems into 3D, entirely.