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Benjamin Berraondo
Senior EMEAI PR Manager – GeForce
NVIDIA
bberraondo@nvidia.com

Harvard PR
+44 (0)207 861 2871
NVIDIA@harvard.co.uk



   
Major New NVIDIA CUDA Release Makes It Faster and Easier To Accelerate Scientific Research with GPUs
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Jan. 26, 2012—NVIDIA today released a new version of its CUDA parallel computing platform, which will make it easier for computational biologists, chemists, physicists, geophysicists, other researchers, and engineers to advance their simulations and computational work by using GPUs.

   
NVIDIA Tegra 3 Processor to Power Audi’s Next-Gen Infotainment and Digital Instrument Clusters
Las Vegas — Jan 11, 2012—NVIDIA today announced that Audi AG has selected the NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 mobile processor to power in-vehicle infotainment systems – as well as new digital instrument clusters that replace traditional dashboard gauges – across its full line of vehicles worldwide, beginning in 2013.

   
2011 Press Releases

   
GPU-Accelerated Engineering Simulation Application to Enable Highest Quality Products for Aerospace and other Mission Critical Fields
BEIJING — GTC ASIA — Dec. 15, 2011— NVIDIA today announced that MSC Software Corporation, a leader in multi-discipline simulation software solutions, has launched a GPU-accelerated version of the MSC Nastran 2012, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) application, which is used in a wide range of engineering simulation tasks.

   
NVIDIA Opens Up CUDA Platform by Releasing Compiler Source Code
BEIJING —GTC Asia — Dec. 14, 2011— NVIDIA today announced that it will provide the source code for the new NVIDIA® CUDA® LLVM-based compiler to academic researchers and software-tool vendors, enabling them to more easily add GPU support for more programming languages and support CUDA applications on alternative processor architectures.

   
BGI Tackles DNA Data Deluge Using NVIDIA Tesla GPUs
BEIJING — GTC Asia — Dec. 14, 2011— NVIDIA today announced that BGI, the world’s largest genomics institute, has slashed the time to analyze batches of DNA sequencing data from nearly four days to just six hours using a NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPU-based server farm.

   
Chinese Ministry of Education to Integrate CUDA Programming Curriculum in Universities Nationwide
BEIJING — GTC ASIA — Dec 14, 2011 — NVIDIA today announced that the Chinese Ministry of Education is planning to offer NVIDIA® CUDA® architecture -focused programming courses at potentially hundreds of universities nationwide beginning in the second half of 2012, resulting in up to 20,000 students being trained annually on the best CUDA and parallel-programming practices.

   
GPU Technology Conference Asia Kicks-off Wednesday with Keynote by NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang
BEIJING — GTC ASIA — Dec. 13, 2011— NVIDIA tomorrow kicks off GTC Asia, the next major event in its international series of GPU Technology Conference (GTC) events focused on the latest advances and research in science, academic and commercial fields enabled by GPU computing.

   
NVIDIA Directives-based GPU Computing Program Already Delivering Application Speedups of 5x and More
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Dec. 7, 2011— NVIDIA today announced impressive results from the first wave of the new “2x in 4 Weeks. Guaranteed.” program, which promotes that programmers can, within a month, at least double their speed in running applications by using The Portland Group (PGI) directives-based compiler and NVIDIA GPUs.

   
NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Again Power World’s Greenest Petaflop Supercomputer
Santa Clara, Calif. — Nov. 23, 2011 — NVIDIA today announced that, for the second year in a row, the world’s most energy efficient petaflop-class supercomputer is powered by NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPUs.

   
NVIDIA Names Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Moscow State University as New CUDA Centers of Excellence
SEATTLE, Wash. — SC11 — Nov. 14, 2011 — NVIDIA today added two institutions to the list of 13 global CUDA Centers of Excellence: the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University.

   
NVIDIA SLI and Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition Power Fastest Gaming PCs
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Nov. 14, 2011— NVIDIA today announced that system builders worldwide are now shipping the fastest PC gaming platforms ever built, thanks in part to NVIDIA® SLI® technology and the just-released Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition processors and X79 chipset-based motherboards.

   
Barcelona Supercomputing Center to Deploy World’s First ARM-based CPU/GPU Hybrid Supercomputer
SEATTLE, Wash. — SC11 — Nov. 14, 2011— NVIDIA today announced that the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is developing a new hybrid supercomputer that, for the first time, uses energy-efficient, low-power NVIDIA® Tegra™ ARM CPUs, together with high-performance NVIDIA® CUDA® GPUs.

   
NVIDIA Tesla GPUs to Accelerate NCSA Blue Waters Supercomputer
SEATTLE, Wash. — SC11 — Nov. 14, 2011— NVIDIA today announced that the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is deploying a Cray supercomputer accelerated by NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPUs, as part of the Blue Waters project to build one of the world’s most powerful computer systems.

   
NVIDIA Maximus Revolutionizes the Workstation
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Nov. 14, 2011 — After 25 years of design and creative professionals anticipating a workstation that simultaneously performs complex analysis and visualization, NVIDIA announced today its arrival, with the introduction of NVIDIA® Maximus™ technology.