Dec. 4 — NVIDIA, the world leader in the field of computer graphics technology, has recognized SURFsara as a CUDA Research Center. SURFsara was recognized for its advanced research and expertise in the field of HPC technology and visualization using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). SURFsara offers amenities like the ‘Elvis’ cluster for remote visualization, the national ‘LISA’ cluster for Capacity Computing tasks, and the national ‘Cartesius’ supercomputer for HPC tasks.
At SURFsara there are experts in the field of visualization and experienced CUDA developers who have participated in several research projects, in which GPUs are used. An important example is a project that eventually led to a nomination for the Gordon Bell Prize, an international prize which is awarded annually to the most outstanding achievements in the field of High Performance Computing. The research activities of SURFsara include focusing on High Performance in-situ visualization, energy efficient HPC technology, and GPU-Direct RDMA technology. The latter study was conducted in collaboration with the research group of prof. Dr. Ir. C. Vuik at TU Delft for numerical analysis.
Thanks to in-situ visualization, researchers can respond interactively to the simulation, such as by real-time analysis and visualization of data, and by controlling the simulation.
Prof. Dr. Anwar Osseyran, director of SURFsara, said, “We are delighted to be officially recognized as NVIDIA CUDA research center. The first visual result of Descartes GPUs during the conference SC14 supercomputer technology shown in the form of a visualization of a simulation of the Milky Way consisting of 1 billion elements. To 100 million stars to visualize the simulation were 64 GPUs simultaneously used. Moreover, SURFsara has a proof-of-concept for a software solution for in-situ visualization that can be scaled to thousands of GPUs while maintaining interactive frame rates.”
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Source: SURFsara
(This press release has been translated from Dutch with the help of Google Translate. The original press release can be found here: https://surfsara.nl/news/surfsara-erkend-als-nvidia-cuda-research-center)