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- What is NVIDIA CUDA™?
NVIDIA CUDA™ technology is a fundamentally new computing architecture that enables the GPU to solve complex computational problems in consumer, business, and technical applications. CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) technology gives computationally intensive applications access to the tremendous processing power of NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) through a revolutionary new programming interface. Providing orders of magnitude more performance than current CPUs and simplifying software development by extending the standard C language, CUDA technology enables developers to create innovative solutions for data-intensive problems. For advanced research and language development, CUDA includes a low level assembly language layer and driver interface.
GPU Computing is a standard feature in NVIDIA's 8-Series and future GPUs. CUDA will be supported across a range of NVIDIA GPUs although we recommend that the GPU have at least 256MB of graphics memory. System configurations with less than the recommended memory size may not have enough memory to properly support CUDA programs.- How do I pronounce CUDA?
- koo-duh.
Requirements to run GPUgrid and Molecular dynamics on GPUs
Computer with one or more NVIDIA 8-Series or greater GPU - examples: 8600GT, 8800GT or 9600GT
See complete list at Cuda Products.NVIDIA graphics driver version 177 or above, as on Cuda Downloads
Other drivers may be available from your hardware manufactures' website.- BOINC client version 6.3.10 or greater which contains co-processor support.
Test if your CUDA installation is properly working
Windows 32: deviceQuery.exe
Require cudalib.dll (32 bit) and cutil32.dll. Place these dll in the same directory from where you run the executable cutil32.dll
Linux 64: deviceQuery
- Require libcudart.so.2