GTC 2012 Program Guide - GPU Technology Conference

TUESDAY
attending, you will learn how to write OpenGL applications that
accelerate the full range of path rendering functionality. Not only
will you learn how to render sophisticated 2D graphics with
OpenGL, you will learn to mix such resolution-independent
2D rendering with 3D rendering and do so at dynamic,
real-time rates.
Speaker(s): Mark Kilgard (Principal Software Engineer, NVIDIA)
Topic(s): Computer Graphics, GPU Accelerated Internet, Digital
Content Creation & Film, Visualization (Beginner)
TUESDAY, MAY 15, 14:00 (25 MINUTES)
ROOM J3
S0069 GPU Computing Advances in 3D
Electromagnetic Simulation
Learn about the latest developments in GPU acceleration for 3D
Full Wave Electromagnetic simulation. The latest version of CST
Studio Suite supports the full range of Tesla products on both
Windows and Linux operating systems. Using GPU, multi-GPU and
MPI-GPU Computing drastically reduces the simulation times for
CST customers. We will provide a status of current and future GPU
developments at CST and share detailed simulation results.
Speaker(s): Andreas Buhr (Department Manager - Performance
Optimization, CST AG), Fabrizio Zanella (Systems Manager, CST
of America)
Topic(s): Electronic Design Automation (Intermediate)
TUESDAY, MAY 15, 14:00 (50 MINUTES)
ROOM C
S0088 Point Cloud Library (PCL) on CUDA
The Point Cloud Library (PCL - http://pointclouds.org) is a large
scale, open project for 3D point cloud processing. The PCL
framework contains numerous state-of-the art algorithms
including filtering, feature estimation, surface reconstruction,
registration, model fitting and segmentation. Due to the massively
parallel nature of many of the above algorithms, GPGPU
accelerations holds great potential for achieving real-time
performance in numerous applications. In this work we
demonstrate some of the recent advances in GPGPU
programming for 3D point cloud processing, and outline plans for
future development.
Speaker(s): Michael Dixon (Research Engineer, Willow Garage, Inc),
Radu Rusu (Research Scientist, Willow Garage, Inc),
Topic(s): Computer Vision, Algorithms & Numerical Techniques,
Stereoscopic 3D, Machine Vision (Intermediate)
TUESDAY, MAY 15, 14:00 (50 MINUTES)
ROOM A5
S0254 Graphics in the Cloud - How NVIDIA is Enabling
Cloud Visualization
Engineers, artists, scientists, and gamers are the most
demanding visual thinkers on the planet, and as such have not
been willing to move their computing environments to the
infamous “cloud”. These remotely accessed systems are seen as
slow and not up to the visual experience that users expect when
dealing with these types of applications. NVIDIA aims to change
that perception with the NVIDIA Virtual Graphics Platform. In this
session you will hear about the technologies behind accelerating
graphics in the cloud, and some of the industry partnerships that
are enabling it.
Speaker(s): Will Wade (Manager, Quadro Advanced Technologies, NVIDIA)
Topic(s): Cloud Computing, Visualization, Computer Graphics
(Intermediate)
TUESDAY, MAY 15, 14:00 (50 MINUTES)
MARRIOTT BALLROOM 3
S0313 Understanding and using Atomic
Memory Operations
Atomic memory operations provide powerful communication and
coordination capabilities for parallel programs, including the
well-known operations compare-and-swap and fetch-and-add. The
atomic operations enable the creation of parallel algorithms and
data structures that would otherwise be very difficult (or
impossible) to express without them - for example: shared parallel
data structures, parallel data aggregation, and control primitives
such as semaphores and mutexes. In this talk we will use examples
to describe atomic operations, explain how they work, and discuss
performance considerations and pitfalls when using them.
Speaker(s): Stephen Jones (CUDA Developer, NVIDIA), Lars Nyland
(Compute Architect, NVIDIA)
Topic(s): Algorithms & Numerical Techniques, Parallel Programming
Languages & Compilers (Advanced)
TUESDAY, MAY 15, 14:00 (50 MINUTES)
ROOM N
S0319 Advanced Driver Assistance System Testing
using OptiX
Learn in this session how the AUDI AG and its partners make use
of OptiX as a unified platform for the simulation of perception
sensors utilizing different physical measurement principles, e.g.
Video Camera, LIDAR, Ultra Sonic, etc. The aim is to generate
synthetic sensor data with realistic measurement errors for
testing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems. Get details about the
challenges they faced during the implementation of the necessary
tools for validating the sensor models and join the discussion
when they describe the upcoming challenges related to real-time
Ray Tracing and advanced material descriptions, when multiple
sensors are simulated simultaneously.
Speaker(s): Erwin Roth (Researcher, Technische Universitaet
Muenchen), Tugkan Calapoglu (Lead Graphics Software Developer,
VIRES Simulationstechnologie GmbH)
Topic(s): Ray Tracing, Machine Vision (Intermediate)
TUESDAY, MAY 15, 14:00 (25 MINUTES)
ROOM A8
S0321 GPU-Based Monte Carlo Ray Tracing Simulation
for Solar Power Plants
Learn about real time simulations of Concentrating Thermal Solar
Power using GPU technology to enable performance optimization
of these utility scale plants. By leveraging the power of GPUs and
the parallel aspect of the field of thousands sun-tracking mirrors,
we have been successful in cutting the computation time by
orders of magnitude versus the previously required minutes and
hours runtime. We will present an overview of the problem
domain and describe how we used the GPU to derive a Monte
Carlo physics ray tracing method to simulate the flux reflected by
the mirrors onto the solar receiver.
Speaker(s): Michel Izygon (Tietronix Software), Claus Nilsson
(Programmer, Tietronix Software)
Topic(s): Energy Exploration, Computational Physics, Ray Tracing
(Beginner)
TUESDAY, MAY 15, 14:00 (50 MINUTES)
ROOM J2
S0328 Best Practices in GPU-Based Video Processing
The combination of the GPU’s massively parallel compute engine