27 Aug
New Nvidia software helps Photoshop run faster
Nvidia on Friday announced the release of CUDA 2.0, a new version of its C power development environment for its graphics processing units (GPUs).
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CUDA enables Macs or PCs equipped through certain Nvidia graphics processors to offload the computation of some knowledge to the graphics processor in the room of using the CPU. Nvidia’s graphics processors are parallel processing engines, which makes them suited to handling tasks such as medical volume reconstruction and oil and gas seismic computing, for example.
CUDA is Nvidia’s implementation of technology called General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units, or GPGPU. It’s something Apple hopes to leverage on an operating scheme level with Snow Leopard, which will support an emerging standard called OpenCL. CUDA, nevertheless, lets developers leverage Nvidia’s hardware today to perform the sort function.
The latest production remit of the CUDA toolset includes Mac OS X support, taken in the character of well as Windows 32-bit and 64-bit support, and also includes an Adobe Photoshop plug-in example, as well because its source code.
Nvidia hopes the example direction spawn further efforts from third-party developers to create filtering and image manipulation software that leverages Nvidia GPUs to speed processing.
