Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC) Harvard University

(For background on the following announcement, see the IIC’s SciGPU project site.) SANTA CLARA, CA—APRIL 2, 2009—NVIDIA Corporation, inventor of the GPU, today announced that Harvard University has been recognized as a CUDA Center of Excellence for its commitment to teaching GPU Computing and its integration of CUDA™-enabled GPUs for a host of science and engineering research projects. The honor complements a prior $2 million grant the University received from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the development of GPU-enabled computational science.
The recognition is the outgrowth of work by the IIC’s Visual Computing Group and collaborators in data-intensive science. The full news release is online at the NVIDIA website.