GPU‘s have been a growing presence in scientific computing in recent years. All you have to do is see how busy NVidia’s booth is at Supercomputing these days. At SC09, the Coordinated Science Laboratory at UIUC announced gpucomputing.net, a “a research and development community dedicated to fostering collaborative and interdisciplinary work on the various disciplines that benefit from GPU computing.”
The focus is on universities and academic research. While the site is open to all for viewing, but to participate you need to be a member, and and eligibility will be restricted to universities (I believe via a .edu address) or researchers/developers invited by a member. bbgm readers know that I have serious issues with that position as it locks out garage researchers and freelancers. I wish the academic community would grow up and realize that the old model is restrictive (to make this more complicated some universities might be going away from .edu email addresses).
There are already a bunch of communities on the site, including molecular modeling, which is moderated by John Stone of VMD fame. There are also blogs and other content. Communities like these, which I call hyper-focused, can be very successful if done right (an example of one I like is Noisepages). I am very interested in seeing how the community evolves. Given the current limitations, I have some healthy skepticism, but would be very happy to see them succeed.
Source: Genomeweb
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Another major issue with restricting membership to people with a .edu email address is that you thereby exclude everyone who works at a university outside the US.
Another major issue with restricting membership to people with a .edu email address is that you thereby exclude everyone who works at a university outside the US.