In a move that shouldn't be that surprising, NVIDIA has announced that its popular CUDA platform is being ported to x86. The obvious angle here is that this will give NVIDIA a weapon against OpenCL ...

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Programmers have been interested in leveraging the highly parallel processing power of video cards to speed up applications that are not graphic in nature for a long time. Here, I explain how to do ...

Nvidia has announced a new version of its CUDA parallel computing platform and programming model, ahead of the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and ...

Nvidia has released a public beta of CUDA 1.1, an update to the company's C-compiler and software development kit. CUDA stands for "Compute Unified Device Architecture." It's used for developing ...

Graphics processing units (GPUs) are traditionally designed to handle graphics computational tasks, such as image and video processing and rendering, 2D and 3D graphics, vectoring, and more.

Nvidia has made improvements to its underlying software tools to make it easier to write programs for faster execution across CPUs and graphics processors. The company on Thursday announced CUDA 6, ...