Micha gewinnt TopCoder Challange

Glastonbury, CT - October 1, 2009 - NVIDIA Corporation and TopCoder, Inc., today announced the winners of the first CUDA Superhero Challenge at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference. The Challenge series of contests asks computer programmers to harness the parallel processing power of the NVIDIA(R) CUDA(TM) architecture to solve some of computing's biggest challenges. First place prize went to Micha Riser, of Zurich, Switzerland who earned a $2,500 prize for his winning solution, closely followed by runner up Hou Qiming of Beijing, China, who won $1,000 for his submission.

"I started exploring CUDA only in the second week of the contest. I had heard of it before but never got the chance to try it out myself," said Riser, a software engineer at carrara engineering GmbH, Switzerland. "The contest was very fun, and I learned much about the CUDA framework and the computation power of the NVIDIA graphic cards as well as about the CCL problem and different ways to solve it."

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