NVIDIA CUDA 2.0 Released to Production

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Forum: CG News
Posted By: LiaisonPDX
Post Time: 08-22-2008 at 05:49 PM
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NVIDIA Corporation has announced the production release of CUDA™ 2.0, the latest version of its award-winning C language programming environment for GPUs that enables software developers to tap into the massively parallel architecture of the GPU for the acceleration of complex computational problems.[font='Arial','sans-serif'] [/font]

[font='Arial','sans-serif']This latest production release of the CUDA software suite includes support for 32 and 64-bit Windows Vista and Mac OS X as well as 3D textures and hardware interpolation to increase the efficiency of applications such as medical volume reconstruction and oil and gas seismic computing. [/font]

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[font='Arial','sans-serif']Also included in CUDA 2.0 is an Adobe Photoshop plug-in example for both PC and Mac versions of the software. The example allows developers to design plug-ins that move the most compute-intensive functions of Adobe Photoshop to the GPU, such as filtering and image manipulation, delivering dramatic performance improvements. The plug-in is available as source code so developers can easily develop advanced filters and imaging techniques that are available directly within Adobe Photoshop.[/font]

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[font='Arial','sans-serif']CUDA 2.0 also features additional source code examples and new compiler optimizations and is available today for free download from www.nvidia.com/cuda[/font]

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