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

[Tobias Hollerer]

The meeting will take place in the CS conference
room (HFH Rm 1132), starting at noon.

Spread the word & see you all there!

Thanks,

	Tobias


Tobias Hollerer wrote:
> 
> 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