Just recently, Nvidia formerly announced that Harvard University
in Cambridge, Massachusetts 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 serves as a complement to a two million dollar
grant the university received from the National Science Foundation in the US for its
effort to teach GPU-enabled computing and for the use of CUDA-enabled GPUs in
various science and engineering research projects.
"With interest in the Compute Unified Device Architecture spreading rapidly across the Harvard campus and the lively scientific landscape
in Boston, there has never been a better time to
announce this partnership," said Hanspeter Pfister, a professor in
Harvard's School
of Engineering and
Applied Sciences and Director of Visual Computing at the Harvard Initiative in
Innovative Computing. "This generous gift from NVIDIA will provide
excellent learning opportunities for Harvard students, accelerate our research
and expand the use of GPUs for computing in science and other advanced
applications."
To date, Harvard has harnessed GPU power for decoding the
intricate structure of the human brain with the Connectome project, studying
the outer realms of the universe with the MWA telescope project and studying
the quantum chemistry of molecules with the Qchem project.