CUDA 4.0 Release Makes Parallel Programming Easier

NVIDIA announced today the latest version of the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit for developing parallel applications using NVIDIA GPUs. The NVIDIA CUDA 4.0 Toolkit was designed to make parallel programming easier, and enable more developers to port their applications to GPUs. This has resulted in three main features:


NVIDIA GPUDirect™ 2.0 Technology — Offers support for peer-to-peer communication among GPUs within a single server or workstation. This enables easier and faster multi-GPU programming and application performance.


Unified Virtual Addressing (UVA) — Provides a single merged-memory address space for the main system memory and the GPU memories, enabling quicker and easier parallel programming.


Thrust C++ Template Performance Primitives Libraries — Provides a collection of powerful open source C++ parallel algorithms and data structures that ease programming for C++ developers. With Thrust, routines such as parallel sorting are 5X to 100X faster than with Standard Template Library (STL) and Threading Building Blocks (TBB).