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 ...

In this Programming Throwdown podcast, Mark Harris from Nvidia describes CUDA programming for GPUs. “CUDA is a parallel computing platform and programming model invented by NVIDIA. It enables dramatic ...

Quick background- I have a subsurface fluid flow simulation tool that I wrote several years ago. From it, I started up a consultancy company, which is finally paying the bills. The algorithms lend ...

This isn’t a review, but given the popularity of my last CUDA book review, I thought I’d mention that Addison-Wesley has published a new book called CUDA by Example: An Introduction to General-Purpose ...

A hands-on introduction to parallel programming and optimizations for 1000+ core GPU processors, their architecture, the CUDA programming model, and performance analysis. Students implement various ...

Graphics processing units (GPUs) were originally designed to perform the highly parallel computations required for graphics rendering. But over the last couple of years, they’ve proven to be powerful ...

Nvidia is announcing on Monday an upgrade to its Cuda Toolkit for developing parallel applications using Nvidia GPUs, with the latest version offering enhancements for application performance and ...

AMD, Intel, and startups like Spectral Compute line up to reduce hardware lock-in and snatch chip giant's computing crown ...

For years, rumors have been circulating that graphics developer Nvidia might start making its own x86-compatible systems—perhaps not for mainstream computers (at first), but for high-end graphics ...

Wolfram Research (http://www.wolfram.com) has announced a technical collaboration with NVidia (http://www.nvidia.com) to integrate GPU acceleration into Mathematica 8 ...