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Articles - CUDA, What Is It and What Does It Mean To You?
techwarelabs.com — Jetart Introduction: CUDA or C ompute U nified D evice A rchitecture is the newest craze to pour out of Nvidia's doors. According to Nvidia's web site : "NVIDIA CUDA™ technology is the world’s only C language environment that enables programmers ... (more) Articles - CUDA, What Is It and What Does It Mean To You?
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Nvidia details Adobe CS4 GPU acceleration
The Tech Report: News — ... 2D and 3D compositing, high-quality antialiasing, HDR tone mapping, and color conversion. After Effects CS4 taps the GPU to apply effects like depth-of-field and turbulent noise in real time, while Premiere Pro CS4 accelerates "motion, opacity, color, and image distortion" with the GPU. Check out Photoshop CS4's GPU-accelerated canvas rotation in action below: Premiere Pro CS4 users with Quadro professional GPUs will also be able to grab Elemental's RapiHD plug-in, which uses CUDA to speed up high-definition video encoding significantly. According to Nvidia, compressing a ...

NVIDIA GeForce 178.13 driver released
DV Hardware — ... GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory (this driver package installs NVIDIA PhysX System Software v8.09.04). Experience GPU PhysX acceleration in several full games and demos today by downloading the GeForce Power Pack. Adds support for 2-way NVIDIA SLI technology with GeForce GTX 200-series GPUs on Intel® D5400XS motherboards. Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI™ technology* on DirectX 9 and OpenGL. Supports CUDA™. Supports Folding@home distributing computing application. Download the high ...

NVIDIA GeForce 178.24 WHQL driver released
DV Hardware — ... a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory (this driver package installs NVIDIA PhysX System Software v8.09.04). Experience GPU PhysX acceleration in several full games and demos today by downloading the GeForce Power Pack. Adds support for 2-way NVIDIA SLI technology with GeForce GTX 200-series GPUs on Intel® D5400XS motherboards. Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI™ technology* on DirectX 9 and OpenGL. Supports CUDA™. Supports Folding@home distributing computing application. ...

Nvidia GeForce Release 178.24 WHQL (Win XP)
DriverHeaven.net — ... 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory (this driver package installs NVIDIA PhysX System Software v8.09.04). Experience GPU PhysX acceleration in several full games and demos today by downloading the GeForce Power Pack. Adds support for 2-way NVIDIA SLI technology with GeForce GTX 200-series GPUs on Intel® D5400XS motherboards. Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI™ technology* on DirectX 9 and OpenGL. Supports CUDA™. Supports Folding@home distributing computing ...

Nvidia GeForce Release 178.24 WHQL (Win Vista)
DriverHeaven.net — ... (this driver package installs NVIDIA PhysX System Software v8.09.04). Experience GPU PhysX acceleration in several full games and demos today by downloading the GeForce Power Pack. Adds support for 2-way and 3-way NVIDIA SLI technology with GeForce GTX 200-series GPUs on Intel® D5400XS motherboards. Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI™ technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL, including 3-way and Quad SLI technology. Supports CUDA™. Supports NVIDIA GeForce 3D Stereo Technology. ...

Badaboom 1.0 uses Nvidia GPUs to transcode video
The Tech Report: News — ... — 5:01 PM on October 23, 2008 Nvidia has made lots of noise about its CUDA general-purpose programming interface in recent months. While the company still boasts about CUDA's benefits for scientific calculations and the like, consumer applications have been hard to come by. A firm called Elemental Technologies is attempting to change that with Badaboom Media Converter, an easy-to-use app that harnesses the GPU to convert videos for use on portable devices. We had our first brush with Badaboom this summer, but there wasn't much to write about: the software didn't support most ...

Finally! NVIDIA Begins Posting Notebook Drivers on Its Site
Tech-Ex — ... X305-Q706 Qosmio X305-Q708 Dell Vostro notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks) Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks) Sony VAIO notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)Here are the release highlights: Beta driver for GeForce 8M and 9M series notebook GPUs. Supports NVIDIA CUDA technology. Supports NVIDIA PhysX hardware acceleration on GeForce 8M ...

Nvidia GeForce Driver 181.71 Beta (windows 7 Only)
DriverHeaven.net — ... This is a GeForce graphics driver update for the Windows 7 Beta. Installs WDDM v1.1 for GeForce 8, 9, and 200-series DirectX 10 GPUs. Installs WDDM v1.0 for GeForce 6 and 7-series DirectX 9 GPUs. Supports Direct3D, Direct2D, and DirectWrite. Supports NVIDIA CUDA - Compute Unified Device Architecture. Supports NVIDIA PhysX (this driver package automatically installs PhysX System Software version 9.09.0203 for all GeForce 8, 9, and 200-series GPUs). Supports NVIDIA SLI on DirectX 9, ...

NVIDIA ForceWare 185.65 Beta (XP)
DriverHeaven.net — ... Adds support for CUDA 2.2 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See www.nvidia.com/cuda for more details. ...

NVIDIA ForceWare 185.65 Beta (Vista)
DriverHeaven.net — ... Adds support for CUDA 2.2 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See www.nvidia.com/cuda for more details. ...

NVIDIA ForceWare 185.65 Beta Drivers Released
DriverHeaven.net — ... Adds support for CUDA 2.2 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See www.nvidia.com/cuda for more details. ...

NVIDIA ForceWare 185.68 Beta Drivers Released
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New NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 2.2 supports Windows 7
I4U News — ... use of a GPU, guaranteeing that 100% of the processing power and memory of the GPU will be dedicated to that application. Multiple applications can still be run concurrently on the system, but only one application can make use of each GPU at a time. This configuration is particularly useful on Tesla cluster systems where large applications may require dedicated use of one or more GPUs on each node of a Linux cluster. The CUDA toolkit is available for developers on the NVIDIA CUDA site . Posted on Sat, 9 May 2009 12:49:51 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr ...

GeForce/ION Driver Release 191.03 Betas (XP)
DriverHeaven.net — ... in the release notes on the documentation tab): For graphics cards supporting multiple clock states, 3D clocks correctly return to 2D clocks after exiting a 3D application. Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here. New in Release 190/191 Drivers Installs PhysX System Software version 9.09.0814. Supports CUDA 2.3 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See CUDA Zone for more details. Existing Support: Supports single ...

GeForce/ION Driver Release 195.55 Beta's
DriverHeaven.net — ... driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION desktop GPUs. New in Version 195.55 Adds GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with the new Adobe Flash 10.1 beta. Learn more here. Adds support for GeForce GT 240. Adds support for OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs. Adds support for CUDA Toolkit 3.0 features and performance enhancements. See CUDA Zone for more details. Adds SLI and multi-GPU support for many ...

NVIDIA Forceware 195.55 WHQL Drivers Up For Download
Legit Reviews Hardware News — ... 2, FIFA Soccer 10, and more. New in Version 195.55 Adds GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with the new Adobe Flash 10.1 beta. Learn more here. Adds support for GeForce GT 240. Adds support for OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs. Adds support for CUDA Toolkit 3.0 features and performance enhancements. See CUDA Zone for more details. Adds SLI and multi-GPU support for many top new gaming ...

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