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Issue 52: July 2010

• NVIDIA @ SIGGRAPH 2010
  • Accepted Papers, Talks, and Presentations
  • Sponsored Sessions
• NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference Registration Now Open (Sept 20-23, San Jose, CA)
• NVIDIA Mobile Game Development Track at Gamesauce – July 19, 2010
• New GPU Computing Webinars Now include CUDA C, OpenCL™ , MAGMA, CULA, Thrust, PGI Fortran and others.
• CUDA 3.1 Toolkit now available
• OpenCL 1.1 drivers now available for registered developers
• Texture Tools 2.08 released
• 3D Vision wins the LARA Innovation of the Year Award

Issue 51: March 2010

• 3D Gaming Summit - April 21-22
• NVIDIA Presentations @ GDC
  • APEX
    • Physically Simulated Clothing by CCP (EVE Online) Using NVIDIA APEX
    • APEX Clothing 3ds MAX plug-in demo
    • Authoring Physically Simulated Destruction with NVIDIA APEX
  • Advanced Visual Effects with Direct3D
  • Screen Space Fluid Rendering for Games
  • DirectCompute Performance
  • DX11 Effects in Metro 2033
  • DX11 Performance Tips & Tricks
  • Enriching Details using Direct3D 11 Tesselation
  • Tesselation Performance
  • Taking Fluid Simulation Out of the Box: Particle Effects in Dark Void
  • NVIDIA's New Game Development Environment: NVIDIA Parallel Nsight™
  • Tegra - Developing Killer Content for Advanced Mobile Platforms
  • NVIDIA GDC Theater Screencasts
  • Khronos GDC presentations
• Just announced: NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference 2010
  

Issue 50: February 2010

• NVIDIA @ GDC
• NVIDIA Sponsored Sessions and selected presentations at GDC
  • Tegra - Developing Killer Content for Advanced Mobile Platforms
    
  • Physically Simulated Clothing in Eve Incarna Using NVIDIA APEX
    
  • Authoring Physically Simulated Destruction with NVIDIA APEX
  • NVIDIA's New Game Development Environment: NVIDIA Parallel Nsight™
  • Advanced Visual Effects with Direct3D
  • Taking Fluid Simulation Out of the Box: Particle Effects in Dark Void
  • [Khronos-sponsored Session] Mobile - Featuring WebGL
    
  • [Khronos-sponsored Session] OpenCL
  • [Khronos-sponsored Session] OpenGL - Featuring WebGL
• Tutorial: High Performance Computing with CUDA
• Become an NVIDIA CUDA Certified Programmer
• "Nexus” is now Parallel Nsight!
• Tegra 2 Announced
• The New Tegra Developer Zone
• New PhysX plug-in for 3ds Max
• The"official" NVIDIA Twitter list
• Sign up for CUDA: Week in Review Newsletter
• SIGGRAPH ASIA Papers
• First Beta for OptiX 2.0 now available
• New Textbook Available: "Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach"
• Call for Participation: GPU Computing Gems
  

Issue 49: November 2009

• NVIDIA GPU Computing news can now be found on Twitter
• NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference videos now available
• SIGGRAPH 2009 videos now available
• Unreal Developer Kit launched
• NVIDIA announces the industry’s first GPU development environment, fully integrated into Visual Studio 2008, codenamed “Nexus”
• General GPU Ray Tracing now possible with OptiX
• SceniX Gets Ray Tracing
• Application Automation with OpenAutomate
• PhysX Visual Debugger update
• The Growing CUDA Ecosystem: News Highlights from Supercomputing 09
• TopCoder CUDA Superhero Challenge #2 coming soon
• CUDA Toolkit 3.0 Beta now available
• OpenCL-conformant GPU drivers and profiler now available
• NVIDIA Performance Primitives (NPP) 1.0 now available for download
  

Issue 48: June 2009

• SIGGRAPH Session Announcements
• NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference Announcement (Sept 30-Oct 2, San Jose, CA) and Call for Submissions
• New NVIDIA Drivers: 185.85 and beta v186.08
• New tutorial on Bindless Graphics for OpenGL
• Cg 2.2 and NVIDIA Scene Graph SDK 5
• GPU Computing Online Seminars now available
• OpenCL drivers now available to GPU Computing Registered Developers
• NVIDIA CUDA Presentations, Demos, and Code Samples
• CUDA Developer Community Contributions from Industry and Academia

Issue 47: April 2009

• NVIDIA Presentations from GDC 2009
• Cg 2.2 and NVSG 5 Available Soon!
• OpenAutomate Announced
• CUDA Toolkit 2.2 Beta Includes The First Hardware Debugger and Profiler For GPU Computing
• GPU Computing Training Webinar Series Announced

Issue 46: February 2009

• NVIDIA @ GDC 2009
• Cg 2.2 Beta and Cg 2.1 February 2009 Updates Released
• GPU Gems 3 Chapters 21-32 Now Available For Download
• NVIDIA Scene Graph 5 Beta Updated
• NVIDIA UE3 PhysX Training Sessions Now Available for Download
• Website Changes
• In Other News...
  

Issue 45: January 2009

• Recap: GeForce 3D Vision Launch at CES '09
• Recap: Taiwan Game Master/Content Professional Seminar 2009
• Feature: Shader Performance Testing in Spore
• Contest: Pixel Bender Contest
• Announce: New chapters from GPU Gems 3 now available
• Announce: Notebook Drivers now available direct from NVIDIA
• Training: UE3 PhysX Training Series begins January 21st
• Announce: GeForce 8 and 9 Series GPU Programming Guide now available
• New Release:Cg 2.1 Now Available (2.2 beta coming soon!)
• New Release:OpenGL 3.0 Drivers now available for Windows and Linux
• New Release: NVIDIA Scene Graph 5.0 Beta now available
• New Release: NVScale 1.0 for Linux now available
• New Release: PerfHUD 6.5 beta now available
• PhysX News:PhysX adoption spreads, along with wide acclaim. PhysX DCC plugins released.
• Events Calendar: NVIDIA Developer Events for 2009
• Coda...and a Survey
  

Issue 44: September 2008

• Breaking News: GeForce Power Pack: One Million Downloads in Less than Two Weeks
• Tool: Latest Windows Driver Provides PhysX, Stereoscopic 3D, and CUDA Support
• Tool: NVAPI Goes Public
• Recap: Game Developer Track Presentations from NVISION 2008
• Recap: NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH 2008
• Recap: NVIDIA at XNA Gamefest 2008
• Recap: NVIDIA at GPU-BBQ in Korea
• Recap: NVIDIA at CEDEC 2008 and Gamefest Japan
• Survey: Game Physics

Issue 43: NVISION 2008

• Event: Developer Events at NVISION 2008
• Software: NVIDIA Provides Immediate OpenGL 3.0 Support
• Contest: Dark Physics Contest Ends August 31st
• Book: GPU Gems 2 in Online Serialization
• Recap: NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH 2008

Issue 42: Siggraph 2008

• Event: Developer Conference at NVISION 2008 Adds Events
• Event: NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH 2008: Talks, Films, and More
• Software: PhysX AgPerfMon Update
• Software: NVSG Updates to 4.0.6.0.7
• Contest: Dark Physics Contest End August 31st
• Software: NVIDIA Shader Library Updates and Additions
• Software: Cg 2.1 Beta Adds Direct3D 10
• Book: GPU Gems 2 in Online Serialization

Issue 41: July 2008

• Event: Developer Conference at NVISION 2008
• Software: It's here: PhysX Physics on the GPU
• Contest: Dark Physics / PhysX Demo Competition
• Event: CUDA Webinar
• Contest: CUDA Competetion Ends July 25th
• Software: New 3D Software Tool Releases
• NVIDIA Shader Debugger
• FX Composer 2.5
• PerfHUD 6 Final
• Event: NVIDIA & Natural Motion at XNA Gamefest 2008
• Book: GPU Gems 2 in Online Serialization
• Event: NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH 2008
• Giveaway: July Survey & GPU Giveaway

Issue 40: June 2008

• Game Developer Program at NVISION 2008
• NVIDIA PerfHUD 6 Beta Released
• CUDA Coding Contest
• New Max & Maya Plugins for NVIDIA PhysX Users
• NVIDIA Partners with NaturalMotion Ltd.
• GPU Gems 2 in Online Serialization
• NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH 2008
• June Mini Survey & GPU Giveaway

Issue 39: May 2008

• Game Developer Program at NVISION 2008
• PhysX v2.8.1 SDK now available for download!
• FX Composer 2.5 Beta &
  NVIDIA Shader Debugger Beta Released
• GPU Gems and The Cg Tutorial Go Online
• OpenGL Spec Documentation Updates
• NVIDIA Stereo 3D Technology
• May Mini Survey & GPU Giveaway

Issue 38: GDC 2008

• NVIDIA Presentations at GDC
• NVIDIA Developer Tool Updates
• Meet the NVIDIA Developer Tools Team, Wed - Fri @ GDC
• Soft Shadows Whitepaper

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