NVIDIA announces GPU Technology Conference 2012

SANTA CLARA, USA: Chipmaker NVIDIA today announced that the third annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC), will be held at San Jose’s McEnery Convention Center from May 14 to 17, 2012.

A new online resource for attendees of GTC 2012, and entire GPU computing community,also went live today at www.gputechconf.com. The site is a year-round resource, featuring details of all keynotes, technical sessions and events, conference scheduling tools, social media resources and much more, said a press release.

A key section of the new site is the GTC Learning Center which provides education, news and insight for the GPU Computing community. In addition to GTC On-Demand replays of 300+ hours of GTC 2010 content, the section will also feature the new GTC Express series of webinars, featuring GPU Computing and computational science experts sharing how GPUs are transforming their fields of work, the release added.

The first webinarwill kick off on June 15, 2011 with a presentation by NVIDIA’s director of research, Dr. David Luebke on the subject of the heritage of GPU Computing and the important problems and research topics facing researchers going forward. This will be followed by a webinar on July 13, 2011, presented by published author and GPU Computing expert, Dr. Rob Farber, on the subject of the practical reality of heterogeneous supercomputing, the release added.