Nvidia Adds 20 New CUDA Research and Training Centers

Nvidia has announced the addition of 20 new CUDA Research and Training Centers that will be focused on leveraging GPUs to address today’s most challenging computing issues.

There are more than 350 universities worldwide teaching the CUDA programming language, and more than 100,000 programmers actively developing applications on CUDA GPUs,” said Bill Dally, chief scientist at NVIDIA.  “We continue to see growing interest and adoption of GPU Computing across a wide variety of industries and scientific disciplines.”

CUDA Research Centers:

  • Boise State University
  • CASPUR (Italy)
  • Fraunhofer SCAI, University of Bonn (Germany)
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
  • North Carolina State University
  • Technische Universität München (Germany)
  • University of New Mexico

CUDA Teaching Centers:

  • Arkansas State University
  • Epitech – Game Development Lab (France)
  • Georg-August-University Goettingen, Max-Planck Institute,
  • Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (Germany)
  • Lebanese American University (Lebanon)
  • Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
  • North Carolina State University
  • San Jose State University
  • Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)
  • Universitat Kassel (Germany)
  • University of California, Riverside
  • University of Missouri – Columbia
  • University of Southern California – GamePipe Lab
  • University Paris Diderot (France)

I think is interesting to watch as GPUs spread through the HPC ecosystem. Long live parallel computing!