{"id":611,"date":"2010-09-26T20:18:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T03:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2015-04-26T20:55:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T03:55:48","slug":"gtc-2010-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/gtc-2010-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"GTC 2010 Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got back from Nvidia’s 2010 GPU Technology Conference<\/a> in San Jose California. I had an amazing trip, and am thankful that I got to go, as it was my first visit to California as well as my first trade show attendance.<\/p>\n

[Side Note: The afternoon before the conference, I took Caltrain up to the amazing city of San Fransisco to visit a friend. He toured me around the city streets in beautiful California weather. There is so much to see and do (compared to what’s around GaTech in Atlanta);
\nI had a wonderful time!]<\/p>\n

\"Arriving<\/a>
Arriving at the 2010 GPU Tech Conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the conference, I was in awe of all the<\/a> surrounding conference speakers and presenters walking around, and got to talk to a few of them, including some Nvidia folks.\u00a0There seemed to be quite a turnout of companies on the show floor, and plenty of neat research posters scattered about. I spent most of my time either helping man the AccelerEyes<\/a> booth, or attending the tech talks.<\/p>\n

The setup for the talks was sort of frustrating, since so many I wanted to go listen to were scheduled<\/a> at the same time. About fifteen different rooms hosted talks simultaneously, six different hours of the day. There was no way to attend to all (or even half) of the presentations I wanted to see. Nonetheless, I still attended many cool talks (I can’t wait for CUDA+OpenCV), and the keynotes<\/a> were pretty interesting as well (especially Adobe’s plenoptic lens<\/a> demo).<\/p>\n

The neatest part of the conference was getting the opportunity (last minute, not registered at all) to actually speak about some of the matrix multiplication<\/a> stuff I learned over the summer at AccelerEyes! I was super excited and thankful, as it was an incredible opportunity for getting a little bit of exposure and recognition.<\/p>\n

Beside the fact I never travel much, this trip was by far the best one I have ever had. I’m definitely more motivated to take advantage of any opportunities to travel, as it was well worth all the school I missed (and now need to make up)! On that note though, unfortunately, I have come back with a bit more apathy towards making good grades in school, versus doing actual productive<\/a> things while working at a company such as AccelerEyes. Oh well, this hard work will eventually (hopefully)\u00a0pay off<\/a>, as it did for me to go to this year’s GTC!<\/p>\n

UPDATE – Random Info Brain Dump: Nvidia announced their CUDA roadmap<\/a> ; they also announced their partnership with ARM+Tegra ; they really want mobile Tegra to take off, but it doesn’t support CUDA, just OpenGL ; the OpenCV maintainers Willow Garage are working with Nvidia crew to “extend” (not port) OpenCV with CUDA ; Vasily and I were not the only ones saying people should go for multiple outputs of data per CUDA thread, and an Nvidia fellow asked me if they should re-think their ‘CUDA Best Practices<\/em>‘ guide that focus on the simple one thread per data element output – to which I said they should at least provide examples of doing it both ways, because it depends on the algorithm, but in general you see performance improvement with more work per thread ; there was also an announcement of CUDA-x86 from PGI (CUDA C compiler targeting x86 microprocessors) ; Microsoft demoed IE9 Dx11 GPU acceleration ; I saw a couple of neat 3D TVs on the show floor ; Mental Images gave a cool interactive ray tracing demo in the keynote ;\u00a0Wow, I did leave out a bunch from the original post, sorry…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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