Nvidia’s GTC 2012

Friday

Friday we packed up early and headed for the airport.  It was the quickest TSA line ever and there wasn’t even havy traffic on the way to SF airport.  We said good-bye to our adventure at the 2012 GTC and we hope we can return next year.  It was an amazing experience and it is really an ongoing revolution that started as part of Nvidia’s vision relatively few years ago. It is Nvidia’s disruptive revolution to make the GPU “all purpose” and just as important as the CPU in computing.  Over and over their stated goal is to put the massively parallel processing capabilities of the GPU into the hands of smart people.

Here is our conclusion from the 2009 GTC

Nvidia gets a 9/10 for this conference; a solid “A” for what it was and is becoming and I am looking forward to GTC 2010!  As a plea to them, make next year’s conference schedule less hectic and definitely make it longer.  Kudos for not dumping us into San Jose rush hour traffic at 3 PM, as last year.  This editor sees the GPU computing revolution as real and we welcome it!

Well, the GTC 2012 gets another ‘A’.  Nvidia has made the conference longer but not any less hectic.  Next year, attendees can look forward to another 4-day conference March 19-22, 2013 at the expanded San Jose Convention Center.

Our hope for future GTCs is that Nvidia can make it a “spectacular” like they did with Nvision08 – to bring the public awareness of GPU computing to the fore by again highlighting the video gaming side of what their GPUs can do.

This was a relatively short and very personal report on the GTC.  We have literally a hundred gigabytes of untapped information in raw video and hundreds of pictures and sessions that did not make it into this wrap-up.  However, we shall continue to reflect back on the GTC on ABT Forum until the next one.

Mark Poppin

ABT Editor-in-Chief

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