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Nvidia CUDA Toolkit 4.1.28 Is Live

Despite the fact that AMD have already released their Catalyst 12.1 display driver and the 12.2 preview package can also be downloaded online, Nvidia still makes us wait for their software. There are rumors about a new GeForce driver generation dubbed 300.xx, but until then Nvidia surfaces the Production Release of t...

27 January 2012
11:15 GMT

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 4.1 Released

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 4.1 has just been officially introduced, meaning that life has become a little easier for everyone who relies on GPU computing in their research. Now that GPU accelerators have become a relatively important part of the HPC (high-performance computing) market, NVIDIA has a very good reason to dev...

27 January 2012
09:30 GMT

NVIDIA Enables ARM Supercomputers With Carma DevKit

NVIDIA did make it fairly clear it was going to milk the ARM cow for all it was worth and, sure enough, it now has what it claims will enable ARM supercomputers. The idea of ARM supercomputers may not be particularly appealing, but some sorts of computations could definitely do with a more energy efficient means of...

21 December 2011
16:11 GMT

NVIDIA Kepler Graphics Card Shaders Won't Be Doubly Fast Anymore

If anyone was wondering whether or not NVIDIA was going to introduce some major changes with the upcoming Kepler GPUs, the latest report on the matter is a definite yes. Granted, it was easy enough to guess that the next line of graphics products would go about things differently, being powered by a smaller manufac...

19 December 2011
05:32 GMT

NVIDIA CUDA Compiler Goes Open-Source

By some strange coincidence, HP's announcement that webOS was going open-source has been followed by NVIDIA making a similar announcement about its CUDA development platform. At least, that is to say that NVIDIA has released the source code for the NVIDIA CUDA LLVM-based compiler. This compiler is included i...

14 December 2011
02:35 GMT

Download the Nvidia CUDA Toolkit 4.1 RC2

It's really nice to see Nvidia coming forward with two nifty releases at once: we're talking about the CUDA Developer Driver 285.86 and the new CUDA Toolkit, now reaching version 4.1.If you're a graphics developer working with the Nvidia platform, the 4.1 toolkit is most likely to become your new best ...

6 December 2011
08:35 GMT

Nvidia Releases CUDA Developer Drivers Version 285.86

Today brings good, fresh news for all the graphic developers using the Nvidia platform: the 285.86 CUDA Developer Driver.The new driver version comes with a lot of improvements and new features among which we sould mention the new LLVM-based CUDA compiler, a whopping 1000+ new image processing functions and the redes...

6 December 2011
08:23 GMT

Nvidia 290.03 Beta Linux Driver Announced

Nvidia has announced that the new generation of Linux drivers, 290.03 Beta, are now available for download for anyone willing to try them. Nvidia has increased a little the pace in which is releasing drivers for the Linux platform. The new 290.03 Beta video drivers bring several changes. Here are some of the importan...

24 October 2011
10:25 GMT

Stanford University Starts NVIDIA CUDA Classes, Named Center of Excellence

NVIDIA's CUDA technology is something that prospective programmers have to first learn about before they can exploit, so NVIDIA entered a tight relationship with Stanford University.NVIDIA has made itself known for many things over the years, the most recent being high-end mobile graphics solutions and mobile p...

5 July 2011
10:23 GMT

NVIDIA Says ARM Will Come to Dominate the PC Market

NVIDIA may have been locked out of the x86 chipset market by that Intel lawsuit, but it seems to be reaping quite a few benefits from switching over to ARM, to the point where the outfit thinks things will change on the PC market.That ARM products would come to seriously challenge x86 processors, if not steal their ...

23 June 2011
05:25 GMT

NVIDIA CUDA Enables Super-Fast Blu-ray Ripping with DVDFab, Download Trial Here

Although creating backup copies of Blu-ray discs (a process also known as ripping) is not exactly a legal activity, as long as you employ the resulting copy in a commercial purpose or upload them to illegal sharing websites, things are quite different when you employ said materials just in order to enhance your own e...

17 November 2010
08:59 GMT

NVIDIA Not Especially Set on Optimizing CUDA for x86 Chips

It seems that, even despite a certain recent announcement, the NVIDIA CUDA technology is never truly going to run perfectly on x86 chips, developers being, at least for now, limited to just testing the reliability of the CUDA-based software approach.Some end-users may be aware of the fact that, not too long ago, NVI...

29 September 2010
09:36 GMT

NVIDIA CUDA Gains OpenCV Support

NVIDIA seems to be getting quite busy at its GPU Technology Conference (GTC), having revealed, more or less, not just the roadmap for its future GPUs and Tegra products, but also upgrading certain existing technologies, such as the CUDA.What NVIDIA just revealed is that the CUDA parallel computing architecture will ...

24 September 2010
05:59 GMT

NVIDIA CUDA x86 Lets AMD and Intel CPUs Accelerate CUDA Applications

For a long time, the CUDA technology on NVIDIA's video boards has been the only means by which CUDA applications could be run at their full potential, but this state of affairs may no longer be when the CUDA x86 compiler arrives.The main purpose of the NVIDIA CUDA architecture was to allow computationally inten...

22 September 2010
04:40 GMT

NVIDIA Releases CUDA Toolkit 3.1

Just a short while ago, NVIDIA made a significant step forward by unleashing Parallel Nsight, a solution that opens up the GPU computing universe to Visual Studio developers. The Santa Clara, California-based company doesn't seem to think that just one step is enough though. As such, it also brought for a new ve...

21 July 2010
09:56 GMT

NVIDIA's CUDA and PhysX VP Hired by AMD

When two companies are locked in rivalry, they always seek to outdo their opponent through an optimum and ingenious use of whatever resources they have on hand. On certain rare occasions, however, more unusual developments take place, such as special deals that make certain applications run better on the solutions de...

27 May 2010
03:12 GMT

Gainward's GTX 400 Cards Come with LoiLoScope

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 may be a lot of things, good and not so much, according to reviewers, but they most certainly have a technology that will make them very well suited for use by professionals in the field of video making and converting.Known as the NVIDIA CUDA technology, this ability lets vid...

12 April 2010
09:34 GMT

TSMC Behind Lower Fermi Performance

The long list of unfavorable developments caused by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has just increased by one, as reports say that the latest episode in the 40nm yields saga has NVIDIA faced with tight supply. Apparently, the situation at TSMC is so dire that NVIDIA can't even get enough CUDA ...

22 March 2010
07:18 GMT

NVIDIA's New CUDA Toolkit Supports Fermi

It seems that NVIDIA isn't just concerned with consumers when it comes to its latest graphics solutions. It is more than well-known that the GeForce GTX470 and GTX 480 will make their appearance at PAX 2010, on March 26th, but what has not been mentioned so far are NVIDIA's plans for Fermi on the professio...

20 March 2010
05:31 GMT

Mass Availability of Fermi Set for Q2

The Fermi architecture has been delayed for months but it seems that NVIDIA will finally be able to push mass availability of Fermi products in the second quarter of the company's fiscal year 2011. Currently, NVIDIA is planning on ramping up production of Fermi chips in the first quarter of its FY 2011, namely a...

19 February 2010
03:52 GMT

NVIDIA Supposedly Planning to Delay Fermi Once More

Just a short while ago, NVIDIA revealed that, according to internal testing procedures, Fermi-based cards would dominate all the graphics market segments. Needless to say, this propelled the Fermi hype even higher than it already was, but it seems that anticipations may turn into disappointment if the rumors publishe...

28 December 2009
08:21 GMT

Kaspersky Boosts Virus Scanning with NVIDIA CUDA

NVIDIA's Tesla GPUs have been getting quite a share of positive responses lately. Not only can they be used to create supercomputers that completely overshadow other clusters in the area of power efficiency, but they are capable of massive parallel processing tasks that make them quite suited to heavy computing ...

15 December 2009
04:38 GMT

NVIDIA Graphics Cards Surface, GeForce 310 and GeForce 205

NVIDIA's two 'new' graphics adapters seem to be the GPU manufacturer's way of addressing the issue of low-end users who would still like their old systems to have at least a minimum of graphics capabilities. Ironically, the GeForce 310 is not, as one would expect (and wish), any debut of a new ada...

27 November 2009
03:09 GMT

Zotac's GeForce GT 220 Doesn't Need Fans to Be Cool

The latest graphics card from Zotac is, as the name implies, NVIDIA-based, and boasts 48 CUDA cores. The adapter has a core clock of 625MHz, a shader clock of 1360MHz, has 1GB of high-speed DDR2 memory and functions on a 129-bit memory interface. With these resources (including a memory clock of 800MHz), the device i...

25 November 2009
03:56 GMT

Yet More GeForce GT 240 Cards Introduced, This Time by Leadtek

In tune with last month's prediction concerning the launch date of the GeForce GT 240 graphics cards, quite a few hardware manufacturers, including MSI, Galaxy and Inno3D, showcased their own models of the NVIDIA-based video adapters. Bent on matching and even outdoing this competition, Leadtek, in turn, came ou...

17 November 2009
08:08 GMT

NVIDIA Fermi-Based Tesla Will Improve Supercomputing

Earlier today, NVIDIA announced the Tesla 20 series of parallel processors aimed at the high-performance computing market. Naturally, the products are based on NVIDIA's next-generation CUDA architecture, Fermi, and are actually able to deliver the same computing performance at a tenth of the cost and one twentie...

16 November 2009
10:58 GMT

Infosys-NVIDIA Technology Center to Be Opened at Electronic City, Bangalore

Major IT developer in India Infosys Technologies and the elite GPU developer NVIDIA revealed today an upcoming partnership plan meant to bring about the creation of software for the CUDA architecture developed by the visual computing-solution provider. “Multi-core and parallel programming were becoming import...

13 November 2009
06:12 GMT

NVIDIA Will Be Fashionably Late in Launching Fermi

Although the next-generation CUDA architecture developed by NVIDIA was, and is, the subject of desire for many consumers, it seems that it will continue to be looked forward to for quite a while. People had hopes that the rumors concerning the delays were false, hopes that NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang completely dispell...

9 November 2009
07:07 GMT

CUDA-Powered Anti-Virus Scanning Is in Development

For a while now, NVIDIA, the Santa Clara, California-based designer of graphics processing units, has been expressing its intentions of enabling a wider range of applications to take advantage of the massively parallel architecture of its line of GPUs. At this time, CUDA is one of NVIDIA's main priorities, as th...

7 October 2009
09:34 GMT

NVIDIA Announces CUDA Challenge for GPU Computing Developers

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA is wasting no time in trying to gain more momentum for its line of high-performance graphics processing units and the CUDA technology. The combination of the two solutions is meant to increase the performance of applications that typically rely on CPU performance. On that note, th...

28 August 2009
06:57 GMT

New Toolkit to Support NVIDIA GPUs Coming from Platform Computing

Today's high-performance computing solutions take advantage of the latest developments in the industry, providing the level required to run some of the most demanding applications on the market. Companies such as Platform Computing, specialized in cluster, grid and cloud computing software, are trying to provide...

20 August 2009
11:23 GMT

Download NVIDIA GeForce 190.38 Beta Drivers

Following the release of the company's latest set of Quadro-supporting drivers, the Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA has published today a new pack of Windows drivers for GeForce graphics processing units. The new pack is still in its beta form, but adds a number of new features and fixes numerous bugs, enab...

16 July 2009
09:38 GMT

New Nvidia Drivers Available for Mac Pro Users - Download Here

Nvidia has released a “critical” update to the Mac drivers for its GeForce GTX 285 and Quadro FX 4800 graphics chips, a requirement to maintain kernel compatibility in Mac OS X. The GTX 285 is a $450 graphics card for the Mac Pro. According to those who’ve applied the driver updates, users gain up t...

14 July 2009
05:49 GMT

NVIDIA CUDA Technology Could Support AMD GPUs

Santa Clara, California-based graphics chip maker NVIDIA is said to be working on enabling its prestigious CUDA technology for AMD's GPUs. This solution will enable application developers to optimize their products for use on GPUs from both NVIDIA and AMD, using the CUDA technology. Consequently, this will enabl...

30 June 2009
03:12 GMT

AMD AVIVO Benchmarked, Disappoints Again

For some time now Santa Clara, California-based graphics maker NVIDIA has been actively promoting its CUDA and PhysX technologies for added quality to its line of GeForce GPUs. Currently, CUDA is adopted by a considerable number of developers, optimizing their applications for use with NVIDIA’s GPUs, consequent...

13 June 2009
03:39 GMT

CUDA Toolkit 2.2 Released – Supports Windows 7, OS X Version Still Standing

NVIDIA has released the CUDA 2.2 toolkit and SDK, which allows applications coded in C to use not just the CPU, but also the GPU of a machine, enhancing the overall processing speed. Among the other noteworthy additions are the ability to zero-copy, or to read and write directly from the pinned system memory, and the...

11 May 2009
06:24 GMT

NVIDIA Tesla to Improve Search for Oil and Gas

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA and GeoStar, a leading Chinese geophysical service provider, have jointly announced the launch of a new hardware and software solution that is meant to significantly boost the performance of the seismic computation for oil and gas companies in China. The solution will take advanta...

29 April 2009
11:40 GMT

NVIDIA Tesla GPU to Help Decipher the Complexity of the Human Brain

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA has announced today that Evolved Machines Inc has chosen the Tesla GPU computing processors for their latest computing facility, designed for the development of artificial neural circuits. According to the graphics maker, the new system boasts an impressive 10,800 parallel computi...

9 April 2009
06:30 GMT

Harvard Becomes a CUDA Center of Excellence

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA announced yesterday that the Harvard University had been recognized as a CUDA Center of Excellence. According to the graphics chip maker, the recognition is highly justified, given the University's commitment in teaching GPU computing and its integration of CUDA-enabled GPUs ...

3 April 2009
04:09 GMT

NVIDIA Announces Collaboration with WIPRO for CUDA Technology

NVIDIA, the leading manufacturer of computer graphics and the creator of the CUDA technology, recently announced that it was working closely with Wipro to provide the CUDA professional services to their joint customers worldwide, enabling developers with easier access to NVIDIA's parallel computing architecture....

16 January 2009
04:35 GMT

NVIDIA Updates CUDA, Free Download Available

NVIDIA is reported to have recently released a fresh version of its CUDA platform, a technology known to benefit from the GPGPU capabilities of the company's graphics solutions. The release does not come with new features, but the SDK has been added support for Windows Vista, Red Hat Linux, as well as VisualStud...

22 December 2008
03:33 GMT

NVIDIA Also Adds OpenCL Support

It didn't take NVIDIA long to also announce its support for the newly released OpenCL 1.0 specification from Khronos Group, following the statement of earlier today from its competitor in Sunnyvale, California, AMD. The graphics chip maker has just announced its full support for OpenCL 1.0, a new compute API th...

9 December 2008
11:04 GMT

NVIDIA to Offer CUDA for Mobile Devices too

Graphics card manufacturer NVIDIA is reported to plan using its CUDA parallel computing technology in all its graphics solutions, including its Tegra system-on-a-chip designed for mobile devices. It is already known that the company's CUDA architecture is a C language environment meant to offer developers an eas...

21 November 2008
02:47 GMT

First NVIDIA Tesla-Based Supercomputer in TOP500

The Tokyo Institute of Technology announced today that it would use NVIDIA Tesla GPUs to leverage the computational horsepower of its TSUBAME supercomputer. According to Tokyo Tech, the TSUBAME supercomputer would be able to peak 170 TFLOPS of theoretical peak performance with the addition of 170 Tesla S1070 1U syste...

18 November 2008
08:31 GMT

NVIDIA Announces Partnership with MotionDSP

Santa Clara-based graphics manufacturer NVIDIA has just announced a strategic partnership with MotionDSP, a relatively small company that specializes in video software applications and is a new NVIDIA CUDA ecosystem partner. MotionDSP is said to be making a real use of NVIDIA's CUDA technology, in order to accel...

25 September 2008
10:27 GMT

NVIDIA CUDA Boosts Speed for Pegasys Video Processing Solution

Those of you that have taken a keener interest in technology-related news these days must know of NVIDIA's NVISION event, which is currently taking place in San Jose, California, and will end tomorrow. It is here that the green company is expected to announce a number of technologies and discuss future projects,...

26 August 2008
06:28 GMT

CUDA Software Tools Updated - Download Here

CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture), a development kit used to create derivative works for academic, commercial, or personal purposes, has been updated to version 2.0. Available for free download here, the main use of CUDA is Standard C programming language enabled on a GPU.From Apple's Downloads page:NVI...

22 August 2008
07:00 GMT

The Visual Computing Battlefield: Larrabee vs CUDA

Intel has finally allowed the world to take a look at what Larrabee is supposed to look like. The news spread fast, as expected, as the new technology has been said from the beginning to be innovative and lots of rumors have circled around it since its name first appeared on the web. The chip giant promises a lot wit...

6 August 2008
06:29 GMT

NVIDIA's CUDA In Shadow By Intel's Larrabee

The competition between Intel and Nvidia becomes stronger nowadays, and it is spread over a few areas in the computing industry. The chipset manufacturing is the first and probably most important battle field between the two companies, but the latest months have brought to us rather the fighting on the integrated gra...

3 July 2008
02:51 GMT

First CUDA Center of Excellence Appointed by NVIDIA

NVIDIA Corporation, a leader in graphics technologies, announced yesterday, together with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), that the University has been appointed as the world's first CUDA Center of Excellence. The Santa Clara company also made a $500,000 donation to UIUC, in addition to the...

1 July 2008
04:07 GMT


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