Jonathan Bentz

Jonathan Bentz leads the CUDA technical marketing engineering team at NVIDIA, where his team focuses on creating and delivering engaging content and connecting with CUDA developers. Jonathan holds a PhD in Chemistry and a master’s degree in Computer Science from Iowa State University.
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Models / Libraries / Frameworks

Just Released: CUDA 12.9

New features include enhancements to confidential computing and family-specific features and targets supported by NVCC.? 1 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design

NVIDIA Blackwell and NVIDIA CUDA 12.9 Introduce Family-Specific Architecture Features

One of the earliest architectural design decisions that went into the CUDA platform for NVIDIA GPUs was support for backward compatibility of GPU code. This... 14 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design

NVIDIA cuPyNumeric 25.03 Now Fully Open Source with PIP and HDF5 Support

NVIDIA cuPyNumeric is a library that aims to provide a distributed and accelerated drop-in replacement for NumPy built on top of the Legate framework. It brings... 4 MIN READ
Development & Optimization

Understanding PTX, the Assembly Language of CUDA GPU Computing

Parallel thread execution (PTX) is a virtual machine instruction set architecture that has been part of CUDA from its beginning. You can think of PTX as the... 13 MIN READ
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Development & Optimization

Optimizing Compile Times for CUDA C++

In modern software development, time is an incredibly valuable resource, especially during the compilation process. For developers working with CUDA C++ on... 10 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design

CUDA Toolkit Now Available for NVIDIA Blackwell?

The latest release of the CUDA Toolkit, version 12.8, continues to push accelerated computing performance in data sciences, AI, scientific computing, and... 9 MIN READ