CUDA

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CUDA, Compute Unified Device Architecture, is a technology that allows a programmer to use the C programming language to be executed on the GPU. CUDA has been developed by NVIDIA and to use this architecture, you have to install a NVIDIA GPU and special streamprocessing drivers. CUDA only works fast with the new GPU series GeForce 8800. According to NVIDIA the driver works with older GPUs, too, but because of the different streaming architecture it is significantly slower. As of November 22, 2006, the CUDA SDK has still not been made publicly available and is not even available for testers. So far only few developers claim to have actually seen it and some dismiss the proclaimed CUDA technology as vaporware or even non-existent. For NVIDIA's announcement see the CUDA homepage.