Nicholas Wilt has been programming professionally for more than 35 years. He has worked at Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Amazon, with an especial focus on GPU programming. While at NVIDIA, he worked on CUDA from the beginning through v4.0 (2005-2010), designing and often implementing the driver API that serves as the software architectural substrate that CUDA rests upon.
Named for the single-celled organisms responsible for oxygenating Earth’s atmosphere, (and in response to Cray’s rhetorical question: “If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use: Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?”), Archaea Software embraces all varieties of parallel programming: from SIMD instruction sets such as AVX2, to multithreading, to GPU computing with CUDA.
