Guest Speaker: Nicholas Wilt, Amazon, author of The CUDA Handbook

We are delighted to welcome Nicholas Wilt, Amazon, as our guest speaker on Monday, Sept. 9. At Amazon, Nicholas works on cloud computing technologies related to GPUs. He previously worked at NVIDIA and Microsoft. Nicholas' new book, The CUDA Handbook, was published this summer by Pearson.

His interactive talk at the Meetup will cover three sections:

1. N-body (source code, performance comparison)

2. Amazon EC2 (real-time demo)

3. "Ask Me Anything!"

With refreshments sponsored by PathScale

Book Description:

"The CUDA Handbook begins where CUDA by Example (Addison-Wesley, 2011) leaves off, discussing CUDA hardware and software in greater detail and covering both CUDA 5.0 and Kepler. Every CUDA developer, from the casual to the most sophisticated, will find something here of interest and immediate usefulness.

The accompanying open source code–more than 25,000 lines of it, freely available at www.cudahandbook.com–is specifically intended to be reused and repurposed by developers."

Bio:

Nicholas Wilt has been programming professionally for over 25 years in a variety of areas, including industrial machine vision, graphics, and low-level multimedia software.

While at Microsoft, he served as the development lead for Direct3D 5.0 and 6.0, built the prototype for the Windows Desktop Manager, and did early GPU computing work.

At NVIDIA, he worked on CUDA from its inception, designing and often implementing most of CUDA's low-level abstractions.

Now at Amazon, Mr. Wilt is working on cloud computing technologies relating to GPUs.

Publications include: CUDA Handbook, 2013; Classical Algorithms in C++, 1995; Object-Oriented Ray Tracing in C++, 1993.