The big winner has written a plugin for Gimp Cuda
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
The first European Cuda programming software ends. Bernhard Gleissner, Vice President of Sales for EMEA and India at Nvidia said: “Our objective was to launch a challenge to developers encouraging them to use their know-how and creativity to create applications highlighting the power parallel processing GPU. The winners were chosen on originality, usefulness, the difficulty and best use of the GPU’s processing power. ” And this is a Cheap Software.
The winner of the workstation HP xw8600 (dual Xeon 5260 running at 3.33 GHz, an LCD screen of 30 inches, a Quadro FX 3700 and a Tesla C870) is Richard Membarth (Germany). It offers a plugin for Gimp, which accelerates the rendering of certain filters. With this tool, Photoshop will soon be the only software images for the power of graphics cards for its calculations.
The second prize (a system of calculation Tesla D870) returns to Jan Linxweiler (Germany) solution for its simulation of fluid flow. The third (a graphics card Quadro FX 3700) is awarded to Bedkowski Janusz (Poland) for its robotics application “Robot Range Finder.”
Finally, Jacek Naruniec (Poland) won the last price (a graphics card Quadro FX 3700) with its application of detection and monitoring of the face.
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