Machine Learning with ArrayFire

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In case you missed it, we recently held a webinar on the ArrayFire GPU Computing Library and its applications to Machine Learning on June 15. This webinar was part of a free series of webinars that help you learn about ArrayFire and Jacket (our MATLAB® product). Anyone can attend these webinars, for they are absolutely free and open for anyone to attend and interact with AccelerEyes engineers. Learn more at http://www.accelereyes.com/webinars. Chris, a Software Engineer at AccelerEyes, explained ArrayFire’s position in the GPU computing world, and presented benchmarks where ArrayFire beats GPU libraries such as Thrust in many critical applications. He also mentioned that ArrayFire could be used either standalone, or in combination with other options for GPU computing such …

Option Pricing

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Andrew Shin, Market Risk Manager of Koch Supply & Trading, achieves significant performance increases on option pricing algorithms using Jacket to accelerate his MATLAB® code with GPUs. Andrew says, “My buddy and I are, at best, novice programmers and we couldn’t imagine having to figure out how to code all this in CUDA.” But he found Jacket to be straight-forward. With these results, he says he can see Jacket and GPUs populating Koch’s mark-to-futures cube, which contains its assets, simulations, and simulated asset prices. Modern option pricing techniques are often considered among the most mathematically complex of all applied areas of finance. Andrew shared some exemplary code to demonstrate how much leverage you can get out of Jacket and GPUs for financial computing in MATLAB® and C/C++. …

Powering Mars Research

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The Curiosity Mars rover landing reminded us of a recent talk by Brendan Babb of NASA and UAA in Anchorage about Jacket-accelerated Mars research. The talk was given at GTC 2012 in May. The main thrust of this research is improving mars rover image compression via GPUs and genetic algorithms. With Jacket and GPUs, the researchers were able to achieve 5X speedups on the larger data sizes. The algorithm works by pairing neighboring pixels with a random one and then adjusting the random pixel based on whether it incrementally improves the original image. Babb described the algorithm as an “embarrassingly” parallel process, ideally suited to GPU acceleration. He estimates he has been able to achieve a 20 to 30 percent error …

Parallelized Gene Predictors with Jacket

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Researchers at the University of Quebec have developed high-performance gene predictors using Jacket to accelerated their MATLAB® code.  This work has been published in BMC Research Notes and is freely available here. Computerized approaches to studying the human genome are challenged by the exploding amount of data, which doubles roughly every 6 months.  In order to deal with this burgeoning datasets, demands for faster processing power continue to arise. This work focuses on predicting genes using frequency analysis with FFTs and with an equivalent technique known as Goertzel’s algorithm.  In these applications, the emphasis of this paper is to propose tools to geneticists and molecular biologists for the prediction or identification of new genes using existing complementary strategies. The criteria for these …

AccelerEyes Celebrates 5 Years with New Product Releases

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AccelerEyes just marked its 5th year in business.  What better way to celebrate than by releasing new products! We are pleased to present ArrayFire v1.2 and Jacket v2.2 for NVIDIA CUDA-based GPUs. These new products support the latest Kepler architecture and include an array of new features and performance boosts, especially for image processing functions. Learn more in the ArrayFire release notes and Jacket release notes. AccelerEyes started up in 2007 with the mission to make productive performance accessible to engineers, scientists, and financial analysts. Our core leadership has been to provide great libraries that are easy-to-use and faster than alternative approaches. The coolest part about working at AccelerEyes is getting to play a part in the awesome projects of our …

Hiring Tons

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Join the hottest GPU software company. We’re rapidly expanding and looking for talented developers who are passionate about making the programming world more efficient. The things we work on at AccelerEyes provide orders of magnitude more productivity for other developers, greatly increasing the amount of science, engineering, and analytics which are produced each year, across the globe, and across every technical computing industry. Specifically, we are looking to hire many developers in the following two roles: Application Engineering – the most vital job. It requires an ability to produce applications in a variety of disciplines, such as healthcare, finance, oil & gas, defense, etc). You will be the most expert users of ArrayFire and Jacket, and will spread your understanding …

ArrayFire Examples and Benchmarks Whitepaper

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What do you get when you offer the world’s most comprehensive GPU library available for free? Excited users who go the extra mile and give back to the community. Andrzej Chrzȩszczyk from Jan Kochanowski University recently wrote an awesome whitepaper, entitled “Matrix Computations on the GPU with ArrayFire for Python and C/C++.” The whitepaper contains many GPU computing tutorial examples as well as performance timings for each example. Andrzej notes, “The purpose of this document is to make the first steps in using modern graphics cards to general purpose computations simpler.”  This document is especially beneficial for programmers looking to accelerate Python or C/C++ codes. We thank Andrzej this fine contribution to the ArrayFire community.  His documentation on ArrayFire will be beneficial to all …

AccelerEyes is Hiring at GTC 2012

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Do you want to code GPUs daily?  Do you want to build software that actually gets used by real people, solving real problems?  Do you want to join the whirlwind of a startup where you own projects and determine success or failure? Then come work at AccelerEyes.  AccelerEyes is hiring for 3 positions:  Inside Salespersons, Fulltime Engineers, and Remote Contract Developers. Checkout our Careers page or swing by our booth at GTC for more info.

Top 10 List at GTC 2012

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It’s going to be hard to sleep tonight.  So much GPU goodness awaits the coming 3 days of the GPU Technology Conference.  Here are my top 10 things to do at GTC 2012: Sessions to Attend #1:  S0287 – Jacket for Multidimensional Scaling in Genomics – This is a great opportunity to learn about accelerating MATLAB® on the GPU.  Come learn why thousands of scientists, engineers, and analysts are using Jacket to do more with less coding hassle. (Day: Tuesday, 05/15; Time: 5:30 pm – 5:55 pm; Location: Room K) #2:  S0415 – An Accelerated Weeks Method for Numerical Laplace Transform Inversion – Learn how the researchers have been able to utilize Jacket in MATLAB® to more efficiently and robustly implement the Weeks method. (Day: Wednesday, 05/16; Time: 9:30 …