Day 2 at GTC was high energy. The after parties are still thumping. It was a hive of GPU activity.
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Here are 7 of the highlights we've collected from our team on the second day of GTC 2013:
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	<li>Jen-Hsun Huang of NVIDIA gave an awesome keynote. He covered 5 topics:
<ul>
	<li>Computer graphics - Awesome life-like renderings of human faces (<a href="https://twitter.com/accelereyes/status/314050691381460994">here</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/accelereyes/status/314051655152857088">here</a>)</li>
	<li>GPU computing update - 1.6 million CUDA downloads so far, tons of interesting GPU-accelerated applications (including matchmaking website fish.com, a diamond cutting company, Shazam, Cortexica, and others), roadmap update (see the next highlight)</li>
	<li>Tegra roadmap update - (see the 3rd highlight)</li>
	<li>Remote graphics update - using GPUs to render things remotely and pipe them to the monitors of user's thin clients</li>
	<li>NVIDIA GRID VCA product announcement - NVIDIA will sell their own 4U system with GPUs for visual computing applications</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Tesla Roadmap - <a href="https://twitter.com/accelereyes/status/314062179500441600">it was unveiled</a>. Maxwell architecture is next with unified memory. Volta will come afterward with stacked DRAM.</li>
	<li>Tegra Roadmap - <a href="https://twitter.com/accelereyes/status/314064527119495169">it was unveiled</a>. CUDA will be supported on the next Tegra release, codenamed "Logan," and will have a Kepler GPU. Starting immediately, a dev system (Logan's twin sister), called "Kayla," will be available to help people start developing applications for Logan. Parker comes after Logan and will have a Denver CPU and a Maxwell GPU.</li>
	<li>Exhibits - Awesome conversations. Great food. Tons of people using ArrayFire!</li>
	<li>Igor Podladtchiko of Spectraseis.com gave an awesome talk on "Memory Bound Wave Propagation at Hardware Limit." He discussed his approach to optimizing some wave propagation kernels, implementing a number of three-dimensional differential equations modeling wave propagation in solids. He was clear and helpful in style and content, and we thoroughly enjoyed the talk.</li>
	<li>Neil Trevett of NVIDIA and Khronos gave a great talk on "Khronos Open API Standards - The Foundation for Mobile Innovation." Most people would think a standards talk would be quite boring, but our team walked away impressed.</li>
	<li>Yuan Lin of NVIDIA gave a nice talk on "Building Accelerated DSLs and GPU Compilers with libNVVM." We love anything to do with high-productivity performance from GPUs!</li>
</ul>
Another awesome day. We look forward to more tomorrow, followed by relaxation in the NVIDIA casino with fake money.

What highlights did you enjoy the second day at GTC 2013?
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