Most notably, the chipmaker announced a compiler source code enabling software developers to add new languages and architecture support to Nvidia’s CUDA parallel programming model. The new ...

One of the key trends for Nvidia right now is the growth of CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture), Nvidia's programming language for general-purpose GPU computing. In a keynote speech, Huang ...

There is always the promise of using more computing power for a single task. Your computer has multiple CPUs now, surely. Your video card has even more. Your computer is probably networked to a slew ...

Is there a shift towards parallelism going on? You could fairly argue that, obviously, with multi-core CPUs and GPUs now standard fare on desktops and in servers, the answer is yes. But another sign ...

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power ...

When Calvin computer science professor Joel Adams launched Calvin’s first parallel computing course in the late 90s, the field was “an esoteric elective kind of thing.” Supercomputers, the main ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Just as a black hole pulls everything toward it, the NVISION(R) 08 event in San Jose next week is pulling in ...

Development tools for parallel computer systems tend to be architecture-specific, difficult to integrate and fairly basic. Parallel application developers often find themselves juggling tools to match ...