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Originally Posted by Bobb4
CUDA, woulda, whata? Please explain to us non-computer geeks what the CUDA system is?
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Never mind I googled it and this is what I found:
I know that it sounds like I've got a cold. Back in May I mentioned about CUDA which is a free download from Nvidia- no point unless you've got an 8 series or later eg GT200 Nvidia graphics card! )for Windows, Linux and Mac). It includes the nvcc Compiler, a Profiler, a gdb debugger for the GPU (alpha available in March, 200
, a CUDA runtime driver (now also available in the standard NVIDIA GPU driver) and the CUDA programming manual.
The whole point of CUDA is to turbo charge your time critical or CPU intensive applications by offloading the number crunching onto the GPU in your graphics card which uses highly parallel operations to do crunch 10 or even 100 times faster than the CPU. Nvidia have been pushing this and you can now find a whole series of free video casts from the University of Illinois as well as other technical resources on the Nvidia site