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Turbocharge Your GPU Experience

The GPU Users Group (GUG) is the new name and the next evolution of the GPU Club. The newly relaunched group is dedicated to supporting, connecting, and promoting the interests of GPU users and developers, from all backgrounds and experience levels.

GPUs are a standard component in most computers but often are underused or misunderstood. For many specialist users and use-cases they are a critical element or have the potential to offer massive benefits. For example, the University’s research infrastructure Computational Shared Facility (CSF3) has 152 high-end GPUs ready to tackle challenging research workloads but achieving maximum performance isn't always straightforward. There are a great breadth of applications, libraries, techniques, and technology to explore, so we must disseminate experience and know-how, and inspire innovation.

The GPU Users Group (GUG) is an on-line only channel in the rapidly expanding CaDiR Teams space. The channel is open for any GPU related messages, such as.

  • Announcements of news, events, technology, products and research
  • Short form articles
  • Peer-to-peer community support
  • Exciting demos, clips and show-and-tell

In particular, the group seeks to increase the visibility and quality of GPU related activity and enable all researchers to elevate their GPU experiences.

To get the ball-rolling the group has opened a short survey to build a bigger picture of GPU users and usage across the University.

Get Involved!

Currently, we are looking for interested researchers / PGRs to help with supporting and maintaining the community.  Assistance with suggesting / inviting contributors and identifying topics would be very welcome. If you are interested please contact Carri King or post your suggestions in the GUG channel.