The University of Surrey has been selected by NVIDIA to be a 2012 CUDA Teaching Center, reflecting our commitment to advancing the state of parallel education using CUDA C/C++. This status is in effect for a year starting on 18th October 2012. There are currently 229 CUDA Research and Teaching Centers worldwide.

GPU programming using CUDA is taught in COM3012, a final-year course in the Department's BSc programmes covering concepts of parallel computing on different architectures that support this. The course features a hands-on approach, where students implement and analyze parallel solutions, giving practical experience and an understanding of the difficulties involved. The course is also made available to PhD students within the faculty, and from this year will also be open to students from the Department of Electronic Engineering.

In designating Surrey as a CUDA Teaching Center, NVIDIA has also donated a CUDA Teaching kit, including a high-end GPU for timing and benchmarking purposes (Tesla C2075). This will significantly improve the experience of our students in COM3012, with the ability to run timing tests on the high-end hardware. With this support we also plan to offer seminars to staff and research students across the faculty. Surrey will also be identified on NVIDIA's website as a CUDA teaching center; this awards has also been publicized on NVIDIA's blog.

For further details, please get in touch with Dr Johann A. Briffa.