[4eyes] Lunch session tomorrow: Report from Nvidia NVision conference

[Tobias Hollerer]

At noon tomorrow, Cha Lee, Rama Hoetzlein, and
Hong Li will report from the NVidia NVision
conference they all attended two weeks ago:
http://www.nvision2008.com/

The meeting room is still to be determined. Stay
tuned (I will send email when it's set)!

Background:

NVidia is putting a lot of effort into pushing
general purpose GPU computing methodology,
especially via their CUDA and Tesla products.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_computing_solutions.html

At the same time, Intel and their collaborators have
not been idle and have been pushing their own
GPU approach, Larrabee:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(GPU)
The developments and presentations at NVision must be
seen in the context of Larrabee making a splash at
ACM SIGGRAPH a few weeks ago.

In any case, we think that it will be really nice to
have a session for people in our respective groups (and
anyone else interested) to hear about the highlights
(from the students' various perspectives: graphics and
simulation, media arts, and scientific computing) from
the conference.

Everyone welcome. Bring your own lunch.

Thanks a lot &
Cheers,

     Tobias


-- 
Tobias Hollerer
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110

holl at cs.ucsb.edu, Office: (805)893-8759,  Fax: (805)893-8553