NVIDIA Releases CUDA Toolkit 3.0 To Prepare For Femi

By Nathan Kirsch

NVIDIA just sent over word that they have released the 3.0 version of its CUDA Toolkit, which gives developers all the tools needed to start preparing their code for Fermi-based GPUs due to hit the market in a few weeks time. Theres been a lot of anticipation about how the Fermi architecture can help accelerate research. The release of the 3.0 toolkit means that the scientific community is a step closer to realizing some of these performance gains. CUDA 3.0 can be downloaded from here if you need it.

CUDA Toolkit v3.0 features include:

  • Support for new GPUs based on Fermi architecture – including ECC, optimized double precision, libraries of linear algebra operation routines (such as BLAS and LAPACK), the CUDA-GDB debugger and Visual Profiler
  • C++ support delivering improved productivity with class and template inheritance
  • GPGPU/Graphics interoperability delivering Direct3D 9, 10 and 11 and OpenGL for both CUDA and OpenCL
  • Improved developer tools for Linux including the new CUDA Memory Checker that reports misalignment and out-of-bounds errors
  • Tesla Compute Cluster (TCC) improving performance and cluster management

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