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09/23/2008 | Direct link

GPU Gems 2The final online chapters from GPU Gems 2 are online! These last four come from the final Simulation and Numerical Algorithms section:

Options Pricing on the GPU
Craig Kolb & Matt Pharr
NVIDIA
Improved GPU Sorting
Peter Kipfer & Rüdiger Westermann
Technische Universität München
Flow Simulation with Complex Boundaries
Wei Li
Siemens Corporate Research
Zhe Fan, Xiaming Wei, & Arie Kaufman
Stony Brook University
Medical Image Reconstruction with the FFT
Thilaka Sumanaweera & Donald Liu
Siemens Medical Solutions USA

09/22/2008 | Direct link

The latest online chapters from GPU Gems 2 are online, as we enter into the final section: Simulation and Numerical Algorithms:

Deferred Filtering: Rendering from Difficult Data Formats
Joe Kniss
University of Utah
Aaron Lefohn & Nathaniel Fout
University of California, Davis
Conserative Rasterization
Jon Hasselgren, Tomas Akenine-Möller, & Lennart Ohlsson
Lund University
GPU Computing for Protein Structure Prediction
Paulius Micikevicius
Armstrong Atlantic State University
A GPU Framework for Solving Sytems of Linear Equations
Jen Krüger & Rüdiger Westermann
Technische Universität Munchen

09/12/2008 | Direct link

GPU Gems 2Several new chapters from GPU Gems 2 have been made available online since our last newsfeed notification, the new chapters cover GPU-based high-performance computing beyond typical graphics issues:

GPU Flow-Control Idioms
Mark Harris
NVIDIA Corporation
Ian Buck
Stanford University
GPU Program Optimization
Cliff Woolley
University of Virginia
Stream Reduction Operations for GPGPU Applications
Daniel Horn
Stanford University
Octree Textures on the GPU
Sylvain Lefebvre
GRAVIR/IMAG – INRIA
Samuel Hornus
GRAVIR/IMAG – INRIA
Fabrice Neyret
GRAVIR/IMAG – INRIA
High-Quality Global Illumination Rendering Using Rasterization
Toshiya Hachisuka
The University of Tokyo
Global Illumination Using Progressive Refinement Radiosity
Greg Coombe
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mark Harris
NVIDIA Corporation
Computer Vision on the GPU
James Fung
University of Toronto

08/19/2008 | Direct link

The NVIDIA Direct3D and OpenGL SDKs have been updated with several all-new samples:

  • Screen-Space Ambient Occlusion
  • Instanced Tessellation
  • Percentage-Closer Soft Shadows
  • Skinning with Dual Quaternions
  • Instancing Tests
  • Parallax Mapping
  • Volume Light
  • Instanced Tessellation [OpenGL]

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08/13/2008 | Direct link

GPU Gems 2Three new chapters from the "High Quality Rendering" section of GPU Gems 2 are now available online:


07/21/2008 | Direct link

The July NVIDIA Developer Newsletter is now available -- click here if you haven't received your email copy, or click here for an overview of recent editions. Keep up on the latest NVIDIA events, software releases for graphics and physics, books, contests, and more.

Congratulations go out to John Ashley of SGI, winner in our June Newsletter monthly giveaway of a new NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700 professional graphics card.


07/17/2008 | Direct link

GPU Gems 2Three new chapters from the "High Quality Rendering" section of GPU Gems 2 are now available online:


07/07/2008 | Direct link

GPU Gems 2Three new chapters from GPU Gems 2 are now available online: the final chapter of the section "Shading, Lighting, and Shadows," and two new chapters from "High Quality Rendering."


06/30/2008 | Direct link

GPU Gems 2Three new "Shading, Lighting, and Shadows." chapters from GPU Gems 2 are now available on the NVIDIA Developer Website:


06/24/2008 | Direct link

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