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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

NVIDIA Rolls out the Second-gen Tesla

After ATI proudly released its new over 1 TFlop capable StreamFire 9250 graphics card, NVIDIA has followed AMD's actions and has announced today its second generation Tesla card. As with AMD's offer, NVIDIA's new product is also going to provide a considerable performance boost as compared to its previ...

16 June 2008
11:17 GMT

PhysX, Running in a GeForce Card Near You

Nvidia's acquisition of Ageia earlier this year was a smart move aimed at bring particle acceleration in its mid-range / high-end graphics cards. Nvidia now plans to make the PhysX API available independently of another acceleration hardware card. As previously reported, the graphics specialist announced that it...

16 April 2008
05:50 GMT

Nvidia, Close to Complete the Ageia-to-CUDA Conversion

Nvidia announced that it has almost completed the conversion of the Ageia physics engine to CUDA. The graphics expert even managed to run a particle demo that is somewhat similar to the fire test Intel ran on a Nehalem test shuttle earlier this month.Nvidia took Intel's offensive seriously and is currently close...

14 April 2008
06:53 GMT

Nvidia Releases Mac OS X Version of CUDA Programming Tools

Nvidia has recently released a new version of its CUDA programming tools, this time for developers using Mac OS X. CUDA tools will help them use the graphics processing units, or GPUs, on newer Nvidia graphics hardware as parallel processing engines, according to Yahoo News.CUDA basically lets programmers offload dat...

28 February 2008
10:55 GMT

Nvidia's PhysX, Now Available Via Software Update

Rumor has it that Nvidia will not make its customers buy an Ageia card in order to enjoy all the benefits of its brand-new physics processor. The physics coprocessor is reported to make its way on the graphics card's VGA chip.Nvidia's fourth-quarter earnings report session came with further details about th...

16 February 2008
05:32 GMT

Nvidia Has Completed the Ageia Buyout, Starts New Technologies

The acquisition of the physics processing units manufacturer (PPU) Ageia seems to have been not only an inspired choice, but also extremely easy for the graphics chips expert Nvidia. Nine days after having giving the news to the media, the GPU giant has announced the completion of Ageia buyout.The PPU market is a nic...

14 February 2008
10:40 GMT

Nvidia Rolls Out the Tesla GPGPU Platform

You've probably heard a lot of things about Nvidia, Ati and GPGPU. The idea of using the power inside the GPU for other purposes than 3D rendering is not a new one but only Nvidia's 8 series and lately Ati's X1900 and HD 2900XT series are completely programmable. AMD's Fusion is also a known subje...

21 June 2007
13:26 GMT


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