For the first time in 2007, NVidia introduces an alternative interface for system software to utilise GPU architecture -- CUDA. This new data-parallel abstraction is very C-like.
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ATI came out with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_to_Metal around the same time, but it was hard to use. They followed it up with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_FireStream, previously ATI Stream.
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For the first time in 2007, NVidia introduces an alternative interface for system software to utilise GPU architecture -- CUDA. This new data-parallel abstraction is very C-like.
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ATI came out with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_to_Metal around the same time, but it was hard to use. They followed it up with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_FireStream, previously ATI Stream.
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