PC Case Upgrade: Antec P182 to CoolerMaster HAF-X

Monday, December 20th, 2010

So I always considered the Antec P182 (now replaced by the Antec P183) to be a big heavy case… until I met the COOLER MASTER HAF X ATX Full Tower Case. A few months back I upgraded to a pair of EVGA GTX 470 cards (for more CUDA fun and ...

CUDA and Intellisense updated

Sunday, December 12th, 2010

I updated my post on adding intellisense support for CUDA. Visual Studio 2010 Adding Intellisense Support for CUDA C It now includes more instructions on setting the project include path and what headers need to be included.

Visual Studio 2010 Adding Intellisense Support for CUDA C

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

Someone asked me how to get intellisense working with CUDA files. So here’s a quick post on the couple of simple steps it takes to get it working… The following assumes you’ve setup a CUDA project with the correct include paths and it builds correctly.

Geek Vacation Day #4: GTC Highlights

Monday, October 11th, 2010

So after the dust has settled and I’m back in not quite so sunny Seattle what were the highlights from GTC? Keynotes: 3D and the Cure for Cancer I was really impressed by the keynotes and wish I could have stayed for the final one on Thursday evening ...

Geek Vacation Day #3: Black Holes and Swag

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

When do you know that something is truly mainstream? When there’s a “____ for Dummies” book for it. Apparently cluster computing has hit that mark. I found this at GTC. Platform Computing were giving them out at their booth. I guess if you factor in Azure and E2C into the ...

Geek Vacation Day #3: Algorithms for Data Parallel Computing

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

Mark Harris’ talk on Tuesday evening was really interesting. He outlined some of the key algorithms for data parallel computing: (Map) Reduce – e.g. Sum Split – e.g. Radix Sort, Trees Compact - remove unneeded elements Allocate ...

Geek Vacation Day #1 & #2: GTC Tutorials and Keynote

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

So after I packed The Susan off home to Seattle it’s time to start my geek vacation in earnest… NVidia’s GPU Technology Conference. Monday was a set of fairly low key tutorials but Tuesday’s keynote by Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA, was very impressive. I’m somewhat jaded when it comes to ...