Why it matters: Nvidia introduced CUDA in 2006 as a proprietary API and software layer that eventually became the key to unlocking the immense parallel computing power of GPUs. CUDA plays a major role ...
What just happened? Since its introduction in 2006, CUDA has been a proprietary technology running exclusively on Nvidia's own GPU hardware. Now, the GeForce maker appears ready to open CUDA to at ...
NVIDIA today made available the NVIDIA® CUDA® 5 production release, a powerful new version of the world's most pervasive parallel computing platform and programming model for accelerating scientific ...
A little-known software platform called CUDA could be the real reason Nvidia remains so difficult to challenge.