CUDA 1.1 for Mac. The CUDA Toolkit is a C language development environment for CUDA-enabled GPUs. In a matter of a few years, the programmable graphics processor unit has developed into an absolute computing workhorse. With multiple cores driven by very high memory bandwidth, today's GPUs offer incredible resources for both graphics and non-graphics processing.CUDA 1.1 Features :
+ Standard C programming language enabled on a GPU
+ Standard numerical libraries for FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) and BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines)
+ Support for Linux 32/64-bit and Windows XP 32/64-bit operating systems
+ Unified hardware and software solution for parallel computing on CUDA-enabled NVIDIA GPUs
+ Dedicated CUDA driver for computing
+ Optimized direct upload and download path from the CPU to CUDA-enabled GPU
+ CUDA driver interoperates with OpenGL and DirectX graphics drivers
+ CUDA compatible GPUs range from lower power notebook GPUs to high performance, multi-GPU systems
+ CUDA-enabled GPUs support the Parallel Data Cache and Thread Execution Manager
+ Direct driver and assembly level access through CUDA for research and language development
The main reason behind such an evolution is that the GPU is specialized for compute-intensive, highly parallel computation – exactly what graphics rendering is about – and therefore is designed such that more transistors are devoted to data processing rather than data caching and flow control.
The CUDA development environment includes:
+ gdb debugger for the GPU (alpha available in March, 2008)
+ CUDA runtime driver (now also available in the standard NVIDIA GPU driver)
+ nvcc C compiler
+ CUDA FFT and BLAS libraries for the GPU
+ Profiler
+ CUDA programming manual
Requirements : Mac OS X 10.5.2 or later
License : Freeware
File size : 12.9 MB