Students Have Global Impact with GPU K-selection Article and Software
Grinnell Mathematics and Statistics majors Tolu Alabi ('13), Brad Gordon ('12), and Russel Steinbach ('12) are having a global impact on GPU computing. From their 2011 MAP with Professor Jeff Blanchard, the four authored a paper which recently appeared in the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics. Since its publication in October 2012, the paper has 29 downloads from the ACM Digital Library and an additional 31 downloads of the preprint from Blanchard's web page (as of Dec. 14, 2012). The research, which provides algorithms for selecting an order statistic from a large list using a graphics processing unit (GPU), also led to the freely available software, GGKS: Grinnell GPU K-Selection. In the past year, this software's Google Code page has been visited from 35 countries with 50 downloads. (Access the paper and software from http://www.math.grinnell.edu/~blanchaj/Research/Research.html.)
