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Originally published 13 July 2012 on the earlier martinpeniak.com site.
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My first few weeks at NVIDIA have been a great experience. I have improved couple of modules in Aquila and run a benchmark comparison of their performance on GTX590 and Dual-socket Intel Xeon X5550. This allowed me better see the real benefit of using GPUs over CPUs for our biologically inspired models used for our experiments. I have also learned few optimisation techniques that I applied to these modules, which resulted in additional 2.5x speedup over previous GPU implementations.
I am starting to work on new stuff from today, which involves developing scalable genetic algorithms and what is more exciting is what I plan to use them for. Later on that in few weeks 🙂
