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CUDA, the Glossary

In computing, CUDA (originally Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a proprietary parallel computing platform and application programming interface (API) that allows software to use certain types of graphics processing units (GPUs) for accelerated general-purpose processing, an approach called general-purpose computing on GPUs (GPGPU).^[1]

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Acronym

An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase that usually consists of the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation.

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Ada Lovelace (microarchitecture)

Ada Lovelace, also referred to simply as Lovelace, is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to the Ampere architecture, officially announced on September 20, 2022.

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Algorithm

In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a finite sequence of mathematically rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation.

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AMD

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational corporation and fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that designs, develops and sells computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets.

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Ampere (microarchitecture)

Ampere is the codename for a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to both the Volta and Turing architectures.

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API

An is a way for two or more computer programs or components to communicate with each other.

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Array programming

In computer science, array programming refers to solutions that allow the application of operations to an entire set of values at once.

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Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC, pronounced – rhymes with "oink") is an open-source middleware system for volunteer computing (a type of distributed computing).

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Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field of science that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, especially when the data sets are large and complex.

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Blackwell (microarchitecture)

Blackwell is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to the Hopper and Ada Lovelace microarchitectures.

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BrookGPU

In computing, the Brook programming language and its implementation BrookGPU were early and influential attempts to enable general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU). CUDA and BrookGPU are GPGPU and GPGPU libraries.

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Bullet (software)

Bullet is a physics engine which simulates collision detection as well as soft and rigid body dynamics. CUDA and Bullet (software) are computer physics engines.

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C (programming language)

C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language.

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C++

C++ (pronounced "C plus plus" and sometimes abbreviated as CPP) is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup.

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C++ AMP

C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP) is a native programming model that contains elements that span the C++ programming language and its runtime library. CUDA and C++ AMP are GPGPU libraries and parallel computing.

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Central processing unit

A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the most important processor in a given computer.

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Common Lisp

Common Lisp (CL) is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard document ANSI INCITS 226-1994 (S2018) (formerly X3.226-1994 (R1999)).

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Computational biology

Computational biology refers to the use of data analysis, mathematical modeling and computational simulations to understand biological systems and relationships.

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Compute kernel

In computing, a compute kernel is a routine compiled for high throughput accelerators (such as graphics processing units (GPUs), digital signal processors (DSPs) or field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)), separate from but used by a main program (typically running on a central processing unit). CUDA and compute kernel are GPGPU and parallel computing.

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Computing

Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery.

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Cryptocurrency

A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or crypto is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it.

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Cryptographic hash function

A cryptographic hash function (CHF) is a hash algorithm (a map of an arbitrary binary string to a binary string with a fixed size of n bits) that has special properties desirable for a cryptographic application.

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Cryptography

Cryptography, or cryptology (from κρυπτός|translit.

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CT scan

A computed tomography scan (CT scan; formerly called computed axial tomography scan or CAT scan) is a medical imaging technique used to obtain detailed internal images of the body.

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CuPy

CuPy is an open source library for GPU-accelerated computing with Python programming language, providing support for multi-dimensional arrays, sparse matrices, and a variety of numerical algorithms implemented on top of them.

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Data compression

In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation.

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Direct3D

Direct3D is a graphics application programming interface (API) for Microsoft Windows.

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DirectCompute

Microsoft DirectCompute is an application programming interface (API) that supports running compute kernels on general-purpose computing on graphics processing units on Microsoft's Windows Vista, Windows 7 and later versions. CUDA and DirectCompute are GPGPU libraries.

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Directive (programming)

In computer programming, a directive or pragma (from "pragmatic") is a language construct that specifies how a compiler (or other translator) should process its input.

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Encryption

In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming (more specifically, encoding) information in a way that, ideally, only authorized parties can decode.

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Facial recognition system

A facial recognition system is a technology potentially capable of matching a human face from a digital image or a video frame against a database of faces.

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Fat binary

A fat binary (or multiarchitecture binary) is a computer executable program or library which has been expanded (or "fattened") with code native to multiple instruction sets which can consequently be run on multiple processor types.

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Fermi (microarchitecture)

Fermi is the codename for a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, first released to retail in April 2010, as the successor to the Tesla microarchitecture.

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Fluid dynamics

In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids—liquids and gases.

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Fortran

Fortran (formerly FORTRAN) is a third generation, compiled, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.

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Function (computer programming)

In computer programming, a function, procedure, method, subroutine, routine, or subprogram is a callable unit of software logic that has a well-defined interface and behavior and can be invoked multiple times.

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GeForce

GeForce is a brand of graphics processing units (GPUs) designed by Nvidia and marketed for the performance market. CUDA and GeForce are graphics cards.

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General-purpose computing on graphics processing units

General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU, or less often GPGP) is the use of a graphics processing unit (GPU), which typically handles computation only for computer graphics, to perform computation in applications traditionally handled by the central processing unit (CPU). CUDA and General-purpose computing on graphics processing units are GPGPU, graphics cards, graphics hardware and parallel computing.

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GitHub

GitHub is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.

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GPUOpen

GPUOpen is a middleware software suite originally developed by AMD's Radeon Technologies Group that offers advanced visual effects for computer games.

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Graphics processing unit

A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit initially designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles. CUDA and graphics processing unit are GPGPU and graphics hardware.

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Haskell

Haskell is a general-purpose, statically-typed, purely functional programming language with type inference and lazy evaluation.

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Hopper (microarchitecture)

Hopper is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia.

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IDL (programming language)

IDL, short for Interactive Data Language, is a programming language used for data analysis.

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Instruction set architecture

In computer science, an instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model that generally defines how software controls the CPU in a computer or a family of computers.

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Java (programming language)

Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.

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JPEG 2000

JPEG 2000 (JP2) is an image compression standard and coding system.

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Kepler (microarchitecture)

Kepler is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, first introduced at retail in April 2012, as the successor to the Fermi microarchitecture.

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Khronos Group

The Khronos Group, Inc. is an open, non-profit, member-driven consortium of 170 organizations developing, publishing and maintaining royalty-free interoperability standards for 3D graphics, virtual reality, augmented reality, parallel computation, vision acceleration and machine learning.

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Large language model

A large language model (LLM) is a computational model notable for its ability to achieve general-purpose language generation and other natural language processing tasks such as classification.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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LLVM

LLVM is a set of compiler and toolchain technologies that can be used to develop a frontend for any programming language and a backend for any instruction set architecture.

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Lua (programming language)

Lua is a lightweight, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language designed mainly for embedded use in applications.

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Machine learning

Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions.

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MacOS

macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.

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Magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes inside the body.

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Massive parallel sequencing

Massive parallel sequencing or massively parallel sequencing is any of several high-throughput approaches to DNA sequencing using the concept of massively parallel processing; it is also called next-generation sequencing (NGS) or second-generation sequencing.

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MATLAB

MATLAB (an abbreviation of "MATrix LABoratory") is a proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks. CUDA and MATLAB are parallel computing.

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Maxwell (microarchitecture)

Maxwell is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to the Kepler microarchitecture.

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Microarchitecture

In electronics, computer science and computer engineering, microarchitecture, also called computer organization and sometimes abbreviated as μarch or uarch, is the way a given instruction set architecture (ISA) is implemented in a particular processor.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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Molecular dynamics

Molecular dynamics (MD) is a computer simulation method for analyzing the physical movements of atoms and molecules.

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Molecular modeling on GPUs

Molecular modeling on GPU is the technique of using a graphics processing unit (GPU) for molecular simulations. CUDA and molecular modeling on GPUs are GPGPU.

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Multi-core processor

A multi-core processor is a microprocessor on a single integrated circuit with two or more separate processing units, called cores (for example, dual-core or quad-core), each of which reads and executes program instructions. CUDA and multi-core processor are parallel computing.

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NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA

The NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA is a vector processor of the NEC SX architecture family. CUDA and NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA are parallel computing.

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Neural network

A neural network is a group of interconnected units called neurons that send signals to one another.

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Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.

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Nvidia CUDA Compiler

Nvidia CUDA Compiler (NVCC) is a proprietary compiler by Nvidia intended for use with CUDA. CUDA and Nvidia CUDA Compiler are Nvidia software.

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Nvidia Drive

Nvidia Drive is a computer platform by Nvidia, aimed at providing autonomous car and driver assistance functionality powered by deep learning.

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Nvidia Jetson

Nvidia Jetson is a series of embedded computing boards from Nvidia.

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Nvidia Tesla

Nvidia Tesla is the former name for a line of products developed by Nvidia targeted at stream processing or general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU), named after pioneering electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. CUDA and Nvidia Tesla are GPGPU, graphics cards and parallel computing.

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OneAPI (compute acceleration)

oneAPI is an open standard, adopted by Intel, for a unified application programming interface (API) intended to be used across different computing accelerator (coprocessor) architectures, including GPUs, AI accelerators and field-programmable gate arrays.

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Ontology (information science)

In information science, an ontology encompasses a representation, formal naming, and definitions of the categories, properties, and relations between the concepts, data, or entities that pertain to one, many, or all domains of discourse.

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OpenACC

OpenACC (for open accelerators) is a programming standard for parallel computing developed by Cray, CAPS, Nvidia and PGI. CUDA and OpenACC are parallel computing.

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OpenCL

OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), digital signal processors (DSPs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and other processors or hardware accelerators. CUDA and OpenCL are GPGPU, GPGPU libraries and parallel computing.

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OpenGL

OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics.

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OpenMP

OpenMP (Open Multi-Processing) is an application programming interface (API) that supports multi-platform shared-memory multiprocessing programming in C, C++, and Fortran, on many platforms, instruction-set architectures and operating systems, including Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, and Windows. CUDA and OpenMP are parallel computing.

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OptiX

Nvidia OptiX (OptiX Application Acceleration Engine) is a ray tracing API that was first developed around 2009. CUDA and OptiX are Nvidia software.

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Order of magnitude

An order of magnitude is an approximation of the logarithm of a value relative to some contextually understood reference value, usually 10, interpreted as the base of the logarithm and the representative of values of magnitude one.

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Original equipment manufacturer

An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is generally perceived as a company that produces parts and equipment that may be marketed by another manufacturer.

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Parallel computing

Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously.

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Parallel Thread Execution

Parallel Thread Execution (PTX or NVPTX) is a low-level parallel thread execution virtual machine and instruction set architecture used in Nvidia's CUDA programming environment.

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Pascal (microarchitecture)

Pascal is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, as the successor to the Maxwell architecture.

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Perl

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.

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Phoronix Test Suite

Phoronix Test Suite (PTS) is a free and open-source benchmark software for Linux and other operating systems.

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Physics engine

A physics engine is computer software that provides an approximate simulation of certain physical systems, such as rigid body dynamics (including collision detection), soft body dynamics, and fluid dynamics, of use in the domains of computer graphics, video games and film (CGI). CUDA and physics engine are computer physics engines.

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Physics processing unit

A physics processing unit (PPU) is a dedicated microprocessor designed to handle the calculations of physics, especially in the physics engine of video games. CUDA and physics processing unit are computer physics engines and video game hardware.

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PhysX

PhysX is an open-source realtime physics engine middleware SDK developed by Nvidia as a part of Nvidia GameWorks software suite. CUDA and physX are computer physics engines and Nvidia software.

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Proprietary software

Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms.

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Protein

Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.

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Python (programming language)

Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language.

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Quadro

Quadro was Nvidia's brand for graphics cards intended for use in workstations running professional computer-aided design (CAD), computer-generated imagery (CGI), digital content creation (DCC) applications, scientific calculations and machine learning from 2000 to 2020. CUDA and Quadro are graphics cards.

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R (programming language)

R is a programming language for statistical computing and data visualization.

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Random-access memory

Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code.

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Ray tracing (graphics)

In 3D computer graphics, ray tracing is a technique for modeling light transport for use in a wide variety of rendering algorithms for generating digital images.

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RCUDA

rCUDA, which stands for Remote CUDA, is a type of middleware software framework for remote GPU virtualization. CUDA and RCUDA are GPGPU and parallel computing.

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Real-time computer graphics

Real-time computer graphics or real-time rendering is the sub-field of computer graphics focused on producing and analyzing images in real time.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Ruby (programming language)

Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language.

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Run-time type information

In computer programming, run-time type information or run-time type identification (RTTI) is a feature of some programming languages (such as C++, Object Pascal, and Ada) that exposes information about an object's data type at runtime.

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Scope (computer science)

In computer programming, the scope of a name binding (an association of a name to an entity, such as a variable) is the part of a program where the name binding is valid; that is, where the name can be used to refer to the entity.

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SETI@home

SETI@home ("SETI at home") is a project of the Berkeley SETI Research Center to analyze radio signals with the aim of searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.

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In computer science, shared memory is memory that may be simultaneously accessed by multiple programs with an intent to provide communication among them or avoid redundant copies. CUDA and shared memory are parallel computing.

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Single instruction, multiple data

Single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) is a type of parallel processing in Flynn's taxonomy. CUDA and Single instruction, multiple data are parallel computing.

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Single-precision floating-point format

Single-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP32 or float32) is a computer number format, usually occupying 32 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide dynamic range of numeric values by using a floating radix point.

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Software development kit

A software development kit (SDK) is a collection of software development tools in one installable package.

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Space partitioning

In geometry, space partitioning is the process of dividing an entire space (usually a Euclidean space) into two or more disjoint subsets (see also partition of a set).

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Stream processing

In computer science, stream processing (also known as event stream processing, data stream processing, or distributed stream processing) is a programming paradigm which views streams, or sequences of events in time, as the central input and output objects of computation. CUDA and stream processing are GPGPU.

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Structure from motion

Structure from motion (SfM) is a photogrammetric range imaging technique for estimating three-dimensional structures from two-dimensional image sequences that may be coupled with local motion signals.

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Subnormal number

In computer science, subnormal numbers are the subset of denormalized numbers (sometimes called denormals) that fill the underflow gap around zero in floating-point arithmetic.

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SYCL

SYCL (pronounced "sickle") is a higher-level programming model to improve programming productivity on various hardware accelerators. CUDA and SYCL are GPGPU, GPGPU libraries and parallel computing.

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Tegra

Tegra is a system on a chip (SoC) series developed by Nvidia for mobile devices such as smartphones, personal digital assistants, and mobile Internet devices.

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TensorFlow

TensorFlow is a free and open-source software library for machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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Tesla (microarchitecture)

Tesla is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 2006, as the successor to Curie microarchitecture. CUDA and Tesla (microarchitecture) are GPGPU, graphics cards and parallel computing.

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The Portland Group

PGI (formerly The Portland Group, Inc.) was a company that produced a set of commercially available Fortran, C and C++ compilers for high-performance computing systems.

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Turing (microarchitecture)

Turing is the codename for a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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Video random-access memory

Video random-access memory (VRAM) is dedicated computer memory used to store the pixels and other graphics data as a framebuffer to be rendered on a computer monitor.

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Virtual reality

Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world.

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Volta (microarchitecture)

Volta is the codename, but not the trademark, for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, succeeding Pascal.

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Volunteer computing

Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which people donate their computers' unused resources to a research-oriented project, and sometimes in exchange for credit points.

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Vulkan

Vulkan is a low-level, low-overhead cross-platform API and open standard for 3D graphics and computing.

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Wolfram Mathematica

Wolfram Mathematica is a software system with built-in libraries for several areas of technical computing that allow machine learning, statistics, symbolic computation, data manipulation, network analysis, time series analysis, NLP, optimization, plotting functions and various types of data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other programming languages.

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3D computer graphics

3D computer graphics, sometimes called CGI, 3-D-CGI or three-dimensional computer graphics, are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data (often Cartesian) that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering digital images, usually 2D images but sometimes 3D images.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA

Also known as Compute Unified Device Architecture, Cuda Nvidia framework, Cuda framework, Cuda nvidia, Cuda nvidia platform, Cuda platform, GPUCC, NVIDIA CUDA, Nvidia CUDA framework, Nvidia CUDA platform, Nvidia Compute Unified Device Architecture.

, Linux, LLVM, Lua (programming language), Machine learning, MacOS, Magnetic resonance imaging, Massive parallel sequencing, MATLAB, Maxwell (microarchitecture), Microarchitecture, Microsoft Windows, Molecular dynamics, Molecular modeling on GPUs, Multi-core processor, NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA, Neural network, Nvidia, Nvidia CUDA Compiler, Nvidia Drive, Nvidia Jetson, Nvidia Tesla, OneAPI (compute acceleration), Ontology (information science), OpenACC, OpenCL, OpenGL, OpenMP, OptiX, Order of magnitude, Original equipment manufacturer, Parallel computing, Parallel Thread Execution, Pascal (microarchitecture), Perl, Phoronix Test Suite, Physics engine, Physics processing unit, PhysX, Proprietary software, Protein, Python (programming language), Quadro, R (programming language), Random-access memory, Ray tracing (graphics), RCUDA, Real-time computer graphics, Reuters, Ruby (programming language), Run-time type information, Scope (computer science), SETI@home, Shared memory, Single instruction, multiple data, Single-precision floating-point format, Software development kit, Space partitioning, Stream processing, Structure from motion, Subnormal number, SYCL, Tegra, TensorFlow, Tesla (microarchitecture), The Portland Group, Turing (microarchitecture), Video game, Video random-access memory, Virtual reality, Volta (microarchitecture), Volunteer computing, Vulkan, Wolfram Mathematica, 3D computer graphics.

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See also

Computer physics engines

GPGPU

GPGPU libraries

Nvidia software

Video game hardware

References