PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwire - November 17, 2009) - SC09 -- NVIDIA (
NASDAQ:
NVDA) and its
ecosystem partners will deliver, over the next few months, the industry's
broadest set of software releases to developers using GPU Computing in
their work.
These updates feature major releases across a broad spectrum of GPU
Computing development languages, tools and libraries. Included are updates
from NVIDIA for its CUDA™ C compiler, with additional support for C++
and its upcoming GPU codenamed "Fermi." NVIDIA is also releasing its R195
driver that includes new extensions to its OpenCL 1.0 conformant driver and
toolkit, and a beta release of the NVIDIA® code name Nexus, the
industry's first development environment for massively parallel computing,
which is integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio.
Alongside NVIDIA's own updates, several partner releases from industry
leaders in software tools are available now, including The Portland Group's
CUDA Fortran solution, Allinea's Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT) and the
TotalView debugger.
"The only effective way to scale performance in demanding applications is
to move to a parallel computing model," said Sanford Russell, general
manager, GPU Computing software at NVIDIA. "The NVIDIA CUDA architecture
facilitates this critical transition with its broad industry support and
network of software consultants and training resources for massively
parallel computing."
Updates to NVIDIA and its partners' parallel computing development tools
include the following:
CUDA Toolkit 3.0 Beta:
With the CUDA Toolkit 3.0 Beta, developers can start developing
applications today for the NVIDIA Fermi architecture. This beta release
includes features such as ECC reporting, Dual DMA Engine, Concurrent Kernel
Execution and NVIDIA Fermi HW debugging support in cuda-gdb. Performance
profiling is included for both CUDA Visual Profiler and the OpenCL Visual
Profiler. Also included is support for a new unified interoperability API
for Direct3D and OpenGL including Direct3D 11.
OpenCL 1.0
Extensions: NVIDIA is the only vendor supporting OpenCL features
beyond the minimum conformance level. New extensions released by NVIDIA
include support for double precision, OpenGL interoperability and the new
OpenCL Installable Client Device (ICD). These new features supplement
existing NVIDIA-only support for 2D image, 32-bit atomics and byte
addressable stores.
NVIDIA "Nexus," the
codename for the industry's first development environment for massively
parallel GPU applications, integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio IDE:
Comprised of a Debugger, Performance Analyzer and Graphics Inspector, this
beta release gives GPU Computing developers an immediate boost in
productivity through common and easy to use tools.
The Portland Group (PGI) -- CUDA
Fortran: Production release of the world's first Fortran compiler
compatible with the NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPUs. CUDA Fortran will accelerate
the adoption of GPU Computing in areas where applications are written in
Fortran, such as ocean modeling, weather forecasting, environmental
modeling, seismic analysis, bioinformatics and other areas.
Professional HPC Debugging Solutions from Allinea and
TotalView were also launched this week. These tools provide CUDA
GPU features that complement existing capabilities for parallel debugging
using MPI, OpenMP and pthreads on the Linux platform. It enables developers
to debug applications that are running on hybrid clusters of x86-64 CPUs
and Tesla GPU-based servers.
Numerical Analysis Packages: Significant advances in the use of
CUDA-enabled GPUs have also been made in prominent numerical analysis and
mathematical modeling packages such as MATLAB from
Mathworks,
Mathematica from Wolfram Research and
LabVIEW from National Instruments.
CUDA Libraries: In addition, developers can take advantage of a
rich set of CUDA-accelerated libraries available from NVIDIA and its
partners including BLAS, FFT, LAPACK (EM Photonics CULA), MAGMA (ICL at the
UTK), NVIDIA Performance Primitives (NPP), CUDA Vision Workbench (CVWB) and
video and image processing libraries.
To accelerate the momentum of CUDA optimized tools and applications,
customers can take advantage of worldwide training and consultancy services
offered by a growing number of
CUDA
Consultants, such as Acceleware Corp., ANEO, CAPS, Elegant Mathematics,
EM Photonics, Fixstars, GASS Ltd., HPC Project, Infosys, SagivTech, Stone
Ridge Technology and Tech-X Corp.
The breadth of languages, APIs, libraries and other tools that are now
supported by NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) based on the CUDA
parallel processing architecture represent the industry's most flexible and
pervasive set of tools available for parallel computing today.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA (
NASDAQ:
NVDA) awakened the world to the power of computer graphics
when it invented the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999. Since then,
it has consistently set new standards in visual computing with
breathtaking, interactive graphics available on devices ranging from
portable media players to notebooks to workstations. NVIDIA's expertise in
programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing which
make supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible. Fortune magazine has
ranked NVIDIA #1 in innovation in the semiconductor industry for two years
in a row. For more information, see
www.nvidia.com.
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to,
statements as to: parallel computing; the benefits, features, impact, and
capabilities of CUDA architecture and the updates to the parallel computing
development tools; are forward-looking statements that are subject to
risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different
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differ materially include: development of more efficient or faster
technology; design, manufacturing or software defects; the impact of
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performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems as
well as other factors detailed from time to time in the reports NVIDIA
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for the fiscal period ended July 26, 2009. Copies of reports filed with the
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