NVIDIA Releases OpenCL Driver to Developers

By DE Editors

NVIDIA Corporation has released its OpenCL driver and software development kit to developers participating in its OpenCL Early Access Program. NVIDIA is providing this release to solicit early feedback in advance of a beta release, which will be made available to all GPU Computing Registered Developers in the coming months.

“The OpenCL standard was developed on NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA was the first company to demonstrate OpenCL code running on a GPU,”  said Tony Tamasi, senior vice president of technology and content at NVIDIA.

At the core of NVIDIA’s GPU Computing strategy is the massively parallel CUDAT architecture that NVIDIA has been shipping since 2006. Accessible through standard programming environments such as C, Java, Fortran,  and Python, the CUDA architecture supports computational interfaces and complements OpenCL.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.