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NVIDIA Says CUDA Is Around The Corner
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Posted by Donster on: 2007-05-25 14:54:36 522
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Thanks Steve @ HardOCP
NVIDIA spent the day promoting its CUDA graphics-processor computing technology at the Microprocessor Forum 2007. According to the article, applications that could run on a GPU used as a CPU include those used in the fields of science, finance and medicine.
"Nvidia released a beta version of software called CUDA (for compute unified device architecture) in February. A general release is expected in the second half of this year. CUDA allows software developers to write programs that instruct the GPU to perform some computing functions normally done only by the CPU. Using the GPU as a CPU is not new, said Nickolls, but CUDA should make it easier for software developers to do."
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