Concurrent with SC09, PGI is offering the tutorial “GPU Programming with the PGI Accelerator Programming Model and PGI CUDA Fortran”. The tutorial is Monday, 16 November, 2009 in Portland, a few ...

Over at Dr. Dobbs, Rob Farber writes that, when used correctly, atomic operations can help implement a wide range of generic data structures and algorithms in the massively threaded GPU programming ...

Some other learning tools for GPU programming we’ve seen in the past include this puzzle-based tool which illustrates some of the specific problems GPUs excel at.

What’s so hard about doing non-graphics programming on a GPU? What do IBM's Cell, NVIDIA's CUDA, and AMD's CTM all have in common? They're … ...