NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference 2010 just kicked off in San Jose, and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has shared something interesting with us on stage -- thanks to a partnership with The Portland Group, it's bringing the CUDA parallel computing framework to x86. Previously limited to NVIDIA GPUs -- and the lynchpin of NVIDIA's argument for GPGPU computing -- CUDA applications will now run on "any computer, or any server in the world." Except those based on ARM, we suppose. Still no word on NVIDIA's x86 CPU.NVIDIA teams with PGI for CUDA-x86, gifts its brand of parallelism to the world originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments
