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GPUs, from Simulation to Encryption (with Agnès Leroy)

GPUs, from Simulation to Encryption (with Agnès Leroy)

Developer Voices

September 18, 20241h 3m

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Show Notes

This week we take a look at what you can do with a GPU when you get away from just using it to draw polygons. Agnès Leroy has spent most of her career programming, optimizing and converting programs to run on that oh-so-curious piece of specialised processing hardware, and we go through all the places that journey has taken her. From simulating the flow of fluids in hydroelectric powerstations, to figuring out how to make a new approach to encryption run fast enough to make it practical…

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A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Scheme (pdf): https://crypto.stanford.edu/craig/craig-thesis.pdf

CUDA platform: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-zone

Rust-CUDA: https://github.com/Rust-GPU/Rust-CUDA

And in case anyone was wondering, A List of Hydroelectric Power Stations in France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hydroelectric_power_stations_in_France

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