Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC) Harvard University

A popular account of the IIC’s SciGPU project has been posted online by the Harvard News Office.

Writer Alvin Powell describes the "trio of projects at Harvard whose massive computing needs have prompted investigators to join forces to pioneer new computing techniques that will benefit not just radio astronomy, but quantum chemistry and neuroscience as well."

In interviews with Powell, Alan Aspuru-Guzik told how he discovered GPU programming as a student, and Hanspeter Pfister expressed his opinion "that GPU computing shouldn’t be relegated to a niche where it grinds away at massively parallel problems. Rethinking how computers approach other types of problems could make them amenable to quick resolution by GPUs as well." Lincoln Greenhill explained how GPUs are crucial to the building of a revolutionary telescope.

Read more at the Gazette website and at scigpu.org.