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CUDA

CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a proprietary parallel computing platform and application programming interface (API) developed by Nvidia that allows software to use certain types of graphics processing units (GPUs) for accelerated general-purpose processing, significantly broadening their utility in artificial intelligence, scientific and…

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Developer
Nvidia
License
Proprietary
Operating system
Windows, Linux
Original authors
Ian Buck John Nickolls
Platform
Supported GPUs
Release
February 16, 2007; 19 years ago (2007-02-16)

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Graphics processing unit

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GPUs supported

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CUDA

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Avg. degree1.98
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CUDA

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related to Limitations · 51
CUDA → AMD, AMD GPUs, AMD's, Andrzej Janik, As, Attempts, Branches, C-style CUDA, ChipStar, Convert CUDA, Converts CUDA, Copying, CU2CL, CUDA-compatible, CUDA-enabled GPUs, CUDA-on-CL, CUDA/HIP, Devices, Earlier, GPU
related to Programming abilities · 29
CUDA → AMP, C/C, Common Lisp, CUDA C/C, CUDA Fortran, CUDA-accelerated, Fortran, Haskell, IDL, In, Java, Julia, Khronos Group's OpenCL, Lua, Mathematica, MATLAB, Microsoft's DirectCompute, Nvidia GPUs, Nvidia's LLVM-based C/C, OpenACC
related to Further reading · 28
CUDA → ACM Queue, ACM Transactions, Brook, Buck, Daniel, Fatahalian, Foley, Garland, GPUs, Graphics, Hanrahan, Horn, Houston, Ian, Is CUDA, ISSN, Jeremy, John, Kayvon, Kevin
related to history · 23
CUDA → After, Agency, At Stanford, Brook, Buck, DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Projects, Doom, GeForce, GPU, GPUs, His, However, Ian Buck, In, John Nickolls, Nvidia, PhD, Princeton University, Quake
see also · 10
CUDA → API, Array, CUDA Runtime API, GPUs, GPUsNumerical Library Collection, Khronos Group, NEC, NVIDIAParallel, Stanford University, Vulkan
related to Advantages · 9
CUDA → APIs, Faster, GPGPU, GPUFull, GPUs, Scattered, Shared, This, Unified
related to Usages of CUDA architecture · 9
CUDA → Accelerated, BarraCUDADistributed, BOINC, CT, Language Model, MRI, NGS DNA, SETI, SfM
related to GPUs supported · 7
CUDA → Below, CUDA SDK, LLVM, Note, Nvidia, SM103, SMXY
related to Comparison with competitors · 6
CUDA → AMD ROCm, AMD's ROCm, GPU, Intel OneAPI, Intel's OneAPI, Whereas Nvidia's CUDA
related to Example · 6
CUDA → Below, GPU, PyCUDA, Python, The, This

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gpus nvidia programming graphics gpu support code software opencl amd compute parallel python source intel processing rocm compiler computing use

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
CUDADeveloperNvidia1.00infobox
CUDALicenseProprietary1.00infobox
CUDAOperating systemWindows, Linux1.00infobox
CUDAOriginal authorsIan Buck John Nickolls1.00infobox
CUDAPlatformSupported GPUs1.00infobox
CUDAReleaseFebruary 16, 2007; 19 years ago (2007-02-16)1.00infobox
CUDAStable release13.3.0 / 26 May 2026; 2 months ago (26 May 2026)1.00infobox
CUDATypeGPGPU1.00infobox
CUDAWebsitedeveloper.nvidia.com/cuda-zone1.00infobox
CUDAWritten inC1.00infobox
OpenMPinstance ofCUDA-powered GPUs support programming frameworks0.80text
OpenACCinstance ofCUDA-powered GPUs support programming frameworks0.80text

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