Thursday, March 26, 2020

Researchers Make Movies of the Brain with CUDA

When colleagues told Sally Epstein they sped up image processing by three orders of magnitude for a client’s brain-on-a-chip technology, she responded like any trained scientist. Go back and check your work, the biomedical engineering Ph.D. told them. Yet it was true. The handful of researchers at Cambridge Consultants had devised a basket of techniques to process an image on GPUs in an NVIDIA DGX-1 system in 300 milliseconds, a 3,000x boost over the 18 minutes the task took on an Intel Core i9 CPU.