NVIDIA launches CUDA coding challenge

INDIA: NVIDIA announced the inaugural NVIDIA CUDA Coding Challenge, an India-wide contest to seek out the country's most talented and innovative CUDA programmers.

CUDA is NVIDIA's parallel computing platform and programming model that enables dramatic increases in computing performance by harnessing the power of the GPU. By giving burgeoning programmers the opportunity to test and hone their CUDA programming skills, NVIDIA hopes to prepare scores of new developers to help tackle tomorrow's most difficult computational challenges by harnessing the power of GPU-accelerated computing.

The challenge is open to all students pursuing higher education in engineering and science. Registrations for interested students will begin immediately on NVIDIA India website, and the contest will commence from Aug. 1. Winning teams will be awarded cash prizes of Rs.1, 00, 000 in total.