Five Nvidia CUDA-Enabled Apps Tested 134
crazipper writes "Much fuss has been made about Nvidia's CUDA technology and its general-purpose computing potential. Now, in 2009, a steady stream of launches from third-party software developers sees CUDA gaining traction at the mainstream. Tom's Hardware takes five of the most interesting desktop apps with CUDA support and compares the speed-up yielded by a pair of mainstream GPUs versus a CPU-only. Not surprisingly, depending on the workload you throw at your GPU, you'll see results ranging from average to downright impressive."
Nice, but... (Score:2, Funny)
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All fine and dandy, but...does it run Linux?
Re:Nice, but... (Score:4, Funny)
Well, everywhere else in the world, Linux runs the CUDA Toolkit [nvidia.com], so I can imagine that in Soviet Russia, a Beowulf cluster of Nvidia cards run Linux.
Re:Hooray ... Fortran again (Score:1, Funny)
Back? You've never been in a Physics department, have you? Fortran was never gone.
Re:Tom's Hardware (Score:5, Funny)
Totally not a biased, money-hatted site. Totally. Trust us.
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Re:Nice, but... (Score:2, Funny)
Seymour Cray was killed by a speeding redneck in a trans-am in 1996.
Well, at least it wasn't a speeding redneck in a 'cuda. ;)