brainwagon

Yep, I’m actually at the NVIDIA (why do I type NVIDIA like nVidia? everything seems to indicate that it is all caps now, I dunno) GPU Technology Conference, trying to once again get into the swing of things with respect to GPUs. Sadly, almost everything I know about computer graphics (which is actually considerable) predates the ongoing revolution that GPUs have brought to the table. We’ll see if some of this sticks this time around. For the first time, I’m beginning to grasp the functionality of current machines, and see where the evolution is going such that I feel it might be worth committing a significant fraction of my (seemingly always shrinking) store of available brain cells.

It’s about time for the 2nd day keynote by Hanspeter Pfister from Harvard, to start. I was lucky enough to serve with Hanspeter on a SIGGRAPH Sketch committee a few years back, and it seems like he’s been busy since then.

I might blog more about what’s going on here, but you might as well track what’s going on using NVIDIA’s official conference blog:

GPU Technology Conference Blog – NVIDIA.