Press Releases & Articles TopCoder and NVIDIA Announce CUDA Superhero Challenge

NVIDIA Corporation today announced that it will be working with TopCoder, a competitive software development community, on the CUDA Superhero Challenge, a series of contests for computer programmers who will harness the parallel processing power of the NVIDIA(R) CUDA(TM) architecture to solve some of computing’s biggest challenges.

The first contest, which is open to all eligible developers, begins September 14, 2009 and will conclude September 25, 2009. $5,000 of prizes will be awarded to five contest winners, who will be announced at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference being held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California, from September 30 to October 2, 2009. Additional details about the CUDA Superhero Challenge can be found at here.

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Posted on August 28th, 2009 by jmpld40

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  • Re: Future CUDA marathons? Friday, 9 October 2009, 10:36 pm
    could you give me a detail?thanks!
  • Re: Future CUDA marathons? Friday, 9 October 2009, 10:36 pm
    could you give me a detail?thanks!
  • Re: Future CUDA marathons? Wednesday, 7 October 2009, 7:39 am
    I must have overlooked that one, thanks.
  • Re: Future CUDA marathons? Tuesday, 6 October 2009, 8:06 am
    If you look on the event calendar, seems like there will be another one in November.
  • Future CUDA marathons? Tuesday, 6 October 2009, 7:18 am
    The first CUDA marathon was great fun. Do you plan any further matches with this technology?
  • Re: CUDA Superhero Challenge Announced! Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 3:29 pm
    The TESLA C1060 is installed just like a graphics device - but CUDA applications will be given access to the C1060 as the primary CUDA capable device.Your application does not need to do anything special - just use the default CUDA device and you wil. […]
  • Re: CUDA Superhero Challenge Announced! Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 2:48 am
    But lars2520 just wrote in the forum: "You should do cudaSetDevice(0). It shouldn't fail. I'm looking into it." Whom we should believe to?
  • Re: CUDA Superhero Challenge Announced! Monday, 14 September 2009, 5:46 pm
    The recorded webinars on the website have the same content as the special ones for TopCoder:http://developer.nvidia.com/object/gpu_computing_online.html
  • Re: CUDA Superhero Challenge Announced! Monday, 14 September 2009, 5:45 pm
    Don't do any special Device Selection - just use the default device CUDA gives you.Topcoder will ensure your kernel gets access to just the Tesla C1060Thanks,
  • Re: Practice CUDA in arena? Monday, 14 September 2009, 5:43 pm
    Its possible to develop and compile CUDA applications without having a CUDA capable HW - its even possible to run the CUDA kernels in emulation mode - its naturally much slower than a real GPU but still good enough to allow you to debug etc., and the. […]