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NEW MACBOOK PROS MAKE FOR GREAT CUDA DEV PLATFORMS

To huge acclaim, Apple unveiled two MacBook Pro laptops featuring the high-performance and power-efficient GeForce GT 650M GPU. Among their many virtues, it turns out that they’re also excellent CUDA development platforms. The NVIDIA GPUs provide the processing horsepower to drive the beautiful new 15” Retina Display at 2880×1800 resolution. To support all those pixels… Read More

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NVIDIA FOUNDATION JUMP STARTS “COMPUTE THE CURE” PROJECT WITH $100K GRANT

There’s exciting news this week about NVIDIA’s ambitious Compute the Cure initiative, which enlists NVIDIA technology and resources in the fight against cancer. The NVIDIA Foundation has awarded a grant of $100,000 for a research team from Virginia Tech to build a gene sequencing and alignment platform that will make it easier for genomics researchers… Read More

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CUDA 4.0 RELEASE CANDIDATE NOW AVAILABLE

The CUDA 4.0 release candidate is exciting because it includes several significant new features that increase the flexibility of the CUDA programming model without sacrificing forward compatibility.  This release is all about making it easier than ever for developers to upgrade existing CPU-only applications to massively parallel applications that make best use of both the… Read More