As accelerated computing continues to drive application performance in all areas of AI and scientific computing, there’s a renewed interest in GPU optimization techniques to ensure applications obtain the best possible performance. As an application developer, there are many ways to program GPUs, up and down the software stack. In this post, we introduce some of the different levels of the stack…
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]]>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 zero-code-change scaling to multi-GPU and multinode (MGMN) accelerated computing. cuPyNumeric 25.03 is a milestone update that introduces powerful new capabilities and enhanced accessibility for users and developers alike…
]]>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 assembly language of the NVIDIA CUDA GPU computing platform. In this post, we’ll explain what that means, what PTX is for, and what you need to know about it to make the most of CUDA for your applications. We’ll start by walking through…
]]>In modern software development, time is an incredibly valuable resource, especially during the compilation process. For developers working with CUDA C++ on large-scale GPU-accelerated applications, optimizing compile times can significantly enhance productivity and streamline the entire development cycle. When using the compiler for offline compilation, efficient compilation times enable…
]]>The latest release of the CUDA Toolkit, version 12.8, continues to push accelerated computing performance in data sciences, AI, scientific computing, and computer graphics and simulation, using the latest NVIDIA CPUs and GPUs. This post highlights some of the new features and enhancements included with this release: CUDA Toolkit 12.8 is the first version of the Toolkit to support…
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