Rob Van der Wijngaart

Rob Van der Wijngaart is a senior high-performance computing (HPC) architect at NVIDIA. He spent over three decades in the area of HPC in various industrial and government laboratories and is the co-developer of the widely used NAS Parallel Benchmarks.

Posts by Rob Van der Wijngaart

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Technical Walkthrough 1 Jun 27, 2022

Boosting Application Performance with GPU Memory Access Tuning

NVIDIA GPUs have enormous compute power and typically need to be fed data at high speed to deploy that power. That is possible, in principle, since GPUs also... 13 MIN READ
Technical Walkthrough 0 Mar 23, 2022

Boosting Application Performance with GPU Memory Prefetching

NVIDIA GPUs have enormous compute power and typically must be fed data at high speed to deploy that power. That is possible, in principle, because GPUs also... 10 MIN READ
Technical Walkthrough 1 Nov 03, 2021

Employing CUDA Graphs in a Dynamic Environment

Many workloads can be sped up greatly by offloading compute-intensive parts onto GPUs. In CUDA terms, this is known as launching kernels. When those kernels are... 8 MIN READ