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NVIDIA CUDA UNLEASHES POWER OF GPU COMPUTING

Innovative New NVIDIA Computing Capability Now Available to All Developers

[quote]SANTA CLARA, CA—FEBRUARY 16, 2007—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, today released a public beta of the NVIDIA® CUDA™ Software Developer Kit (SDK) and C-compiler for computing on NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs). GPU Computing with the CUDA SDK is a new approach to computing where hundreds of on-chip processors simultaneously communicate and cooperate to solve complex computing problems.

“The GPU is now a powerful, programmable processor that is ideally suited for computationally intensive applications such as seismic processing for oil and gas exploration, computing in bioscience, and financial modeling. With the recent introduction of CUDA technology, the parallel computing power of the GPU is now accessible to virtually any developer through standard C programming language,â€

what exactly does that mean? I don't need to use my cpu for math calculations? if I want to use my gpu too?

The company promises that the software will allow full access to the 128/96 cores of GeForce 8800 graphics cards and leverage their floating point capability, not only for graphics, but other applications that rely on number crunching performance as well.

-from a differnt articleon the same topic. (TG DAILY)

Basically in the future programmers can write applications to use the full power of the GPU, because they are better at certain tasks than a CPU due to their design.

Sweet guess its official that my x800gto is outdated.