Introduction to GPU computing for statisticians
Day: Monday, September 16Time: 2:10 PM - 3:00 PM
Place: Snedecor Hall 2113
GPUs, or Graphics processing units, were mostly used as gaming toys at their inception. But now, scientists and statisticians use GPUs to speed up their data analysis software by orders of magnitude. Become a part of this revolution in massively parallel computing and come learn how to speed up a variety of parallelizable computations, from Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to K-means clustering and beyond. This talk, which begins the fall semester weekly seminar series on GPU computing, will introduce the Iowa State Statistics Department's GPU clusters and the paradigm of general purpose GPU computing.
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