Nvidia’s Parallel Forall blog recently highlighted two applications that are using my Python HPC packages to accelerate their computational science workloads:

• Increasing the Luminosity of Beam Dynamics with GPUs, a writeup of Adrian Oeftiger‘s work on CERN’s PyHEADTAIL code.

• Open, Reproducible Computational Chemistry with Python and CUDA …

Quote of the day:

In Python 2.6, no one can hear you scream.

(source) This reminds me of that one time when I was debugging some odd interaction between threading and contexts in PyCUDA. Never again, hopefully. :)

This October I had the honor of presenting my work on using Python with GPUs at PyData NYC 2012.

There was also a panel discussion on Python+Parallel that I was a part of—great fun.

Also be sure to check out all the videos of the other great talks …

At the recent PyCon Quattro, which took place in early May in the beautiful Tuscan city of Florence, Fabrizio Milo gave a talk on PyCUDA entitled

PyCuda: Come sfruttare la potenza delle schede video nelle applicazioni python (PyCUDA: How to make use of the power of graphics cards in Python …

In my opinion, GPU computing is significant because I—as a grad student—can easily afford a machine that allows me to perform a simulation like the following in 40 minutes instead of a whole workday. That’s why.

If you’re curious, this shows the density of a vortex …

Nicolas Pinto, Yunsup Lee, Bryan Catanzaro, Paul Ivanov, Ahmed Fasih and I have recently submitted an article that explains how PyCUDA allows the user to do run-time code generation (“RTCG”), and how that is an enormous boon to implementation efforts of most high-performance codes. Among many other things, PyCUDA also …

This past week, I had the honor of presenting a talk on PyCUDA at Nvidia‘s inaugural GPU Technology Conference.

Please click the following link to view the slides: PyCUDA talk at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference.

Update: Nvidia has posted a recording of the session that you may watch …

The SciPy‘09 conference ended less than a week ago. At the invitation of the SciPy‘09 organizers (especially Fernando Perez), Nicolas Pinto gave a talk in the Advanced Tutorials track on how to use PyCUDA to do GPU scripting.

First, I would like to use this opportunity to publicly …