NVIDIA Thinks Big at December GPU Technology Conference

NVIDIA has been holding GTC issues for quite a while time already, each one meant to promote its products and attract prospective researchers and programmers, so it is no real shock to learn that the outfit is already preparing for the December edition.

NVIDIA's international series of GPU Technology Conference (GTC) events are primarily concerned with the scientific, academic and commercial fields, where GPU computing has potential.

The Santa Clara, California-based company has already held such events in Israel, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan.

The goal for the December edition (sponsored by ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, Leadtek and others) is to again draw attendees, from across as many industries and disciplines as possible (energy exploration, chemistry, supercomputing, life sciences, etc.).

One thing the company has planned is a parallel computing session for biomedical and bioinformatics science, featuring the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI).

The Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Process is also involved in this GTC Session, holding a workshop on exascale computing.

What's more, the issue will also be raised of how GPU computing can help in the search for hidden oil reserves.

"Exascale computing is the next frontier to tackle to enable future advances in virtually all areas of science," said Professor Wei Ge, Institute of Process Engineering at Chinese Academy of Sciences.

"To achieve this worthy goal, worldwide collaboration on driving higher levels of computing performance is needed. GTC brings together the key researchers, academics and technologists to help make this goal a reality."

Overall, the schedule will include many roundtable discussions, keynotes, presentations, tutorials, academic posters, etc.

Finally, NVIDIA also intends to hold over 60 instructional sessions and an emerging companies summit.

"GPU computing has the potential to dramatically increase the pace and breadth of innovation possible in the genomics field," said Mr. Wang Bingqiang, Head of High Performance Computing Applications at the Beijing Genomics Institute.

"From genetic mapping to DNA sequencing, having an order of magnitude more performance to apply to the latest research projects will empower researchers and scientists to make next-generation breakthroughs that until now have been impossible to achieve."

NVIDIA's GTC Asia even will take place at the  China National Convention Center in Beijing, on December 14-15.