Over at the Nvidia blog, Mark Harris has posted a simple introduction to CUDA, the popular parallel computing platform and programming model from NVIDIA. I wrote a previous “Easy Introduction” to CUDA ...

From HPCwire we learn that NVIDIA has released version 1.0 of its CUDA GPU code development kit and C compiler. The release complements the company’s recent Tesla TFLOPS workstation annnouncement.

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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ — The Portland Group®, a wholly-owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) and a leading supplier of compilers for high-performance computing (HPC), ...

I'm on a student research project that requires heavy computations so I need to set up a programming environment for CUDA. At my disposal I have Visual Studio 2013 and Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015. I ...

Support for unified memory across CPUs and GPUs in accelerated computing systems is the final piece of a programming puzzle that we have been assembling for about ten years now. Unified memory has a ...

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 ...