Nick Sinnott-Armstrong, class of 2009, co-authored the prize-winning paper in the first competition to focus on a new field of parallel computing called GPU processing. Nick and his two co-authors presented their paper in July at the 2009 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference in Montreal, where members of the audience voted on the overall winner.
Organizers described the competition as "focusing on the applications of genetic and evolutionary computation that can maximally exploit the parallelism provided by low-cost consumer graphical cards." It rewarded the best applications in terms of degree of parallelism obtained, overall speed-up and programming style.
The competition received 10 submissions, and the top three presented their work. Nick's winning entry was called “Using Evolutionary Computing on Consumer Graphics Hardware for Epistasis Analysis in Human Genetics.” For their work the trio received a Quadro FX 5800, a state-of-the-art graphics card made by the NVIDIA Corporation.
All papers can be found at the conference website: http://gpgpgpu.com/gecco2009/.
Monday, October 5, 2009
ALUMNI NOTES: NICK SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG A PRIZE-WINNER AT MONTREAL PROGRAMMING CONFERENCE
