NVIDIA's CUDA: Exploiting the supercomputers on your laptop. NVIDIA's CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) is revolutionizing the world of Supercomputing. On April 17, 2007, NVIDIA released the GeForce 8500 GT, 8600 GT, and 8600 GTS for the mainstream market. The series of high computing GPU are based on GeForce 8. This is the eighth generation of NVIDIA's GeForce graphics cards. This is the company's first GPU based on unified shader architecture. Along with this release NVIDIA is also distributing a software development kit CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) for developing innovative applications on GeForce 8 based GPUs. NVIDIA's CUDA SDK is being employed in a plethora of fields right from the finance to Neural network and fuzzy logic to simulations for Nanotechnology Read more |