Friday, April 13, 2007

Nvidia CUDA - preview

Graphic processors or GPUs have evolved much in the past few years. Today, they are capable of calculating things other than pixels in video games, however, it's important to know how to use them efficiently for other tasks. If AMD has been the first to present a concrete solution to this problem, Nvidia is the first to make this solution available. We'll have a look at it in this article.

During the last couple of years, GPU calculation power has improved exponentially and much faster than that of the CPU. However, this doesn't mean that GPUs have evolved faster. These two components face different challenges and for this reason they have evolved in different directions.

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