NVIDIA and PGI Announce CUDA-x86
NVIDIA announced this morning that they have entered a partnership with The Portland Group and that the company is bringing the CUDA parallel computing framework for both 64- and 32-bit x86 architectures. This means that CUDA-x86 will compile CUDA applications in order for them to work with x86 processors. This is great news for NVIDIA as their CUDA applications will now run in theory run on “any computer, or any server in the world.” There will be some exceptions, but this is good news.
“In less than three years, CUDA has become the most widely used massively parallel programming model,” said Sanford Russell, general manager of GPU Computing software at NVIDIA. “With the CUDA for x86 CPU compiler, PGI is responding to the need of developers who want to use a single parallel programming model to target many core GPUs and multi-core CPUs.”
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