This summer I am working on a small research project on parallel processing using nvidia CUDA. I purchased a nvidia CUDA enabled GTS 250 graphics card. While I anticipated the need for a larger 600 watt power supply, I did not expect the card to hit against my CPU heat sink. I have ordered a new motherboard which should eliminate the problem, but it is on back-order from Tigerdirect. Paul has suggested that I use a Dremel tool to solve the problem … I think I will wait.

In the mean time I have spent the past few days listening to lectures from a spring 2009 University of Illinois course exe496 Programming Massively Parallel Processors. Audio of the lectures as well as slides are posted.

I have also run several sample programs using the emulator under Visual Studio 2008.

As always I find myself learning more than I first intended including a quick review of matrix multiplication and the bitonic sort.