Monthly Archives: January 2010

First meeting

On Friday, Jan. 29 we had the first meeting of the club, and the turnout was quite surprising. I did not count but there were over 20 students present. First, I gave an overview of the club’s goals and talked about the VGC sandbox. Then, Darin gave a brief overview of CUDA, both a little […]

A Short Tutorial of Using Multi Core CPU in Matlab and C

For grads like me, who are running simulations everyday,  one CPU is far from enough. How can we make the best of  multiple cores in our machine? For those who are more familiar with Matlab, parallel computing toolbox provides an extremely simple solution. Here is a simple way to use multiple cores in Matlab: matlabpool(4) % […]