NVIDIA’s CUDA turns GPUs into high-powered CPUs

Well, at this year’s Microprocessor Forum the company took another small step by announcing that the final release of CUDA, its framework for utilizing high-end NVIDIA GPUs as CPUs, which will be available to developers in the second half of the year.

It will be interesting to see how CUDA takes off. Right now, it will only work with 8600, 8800 and Quadro FX 4600 and 5600. GPUs are known to be extreme data pushers, so we might very well be using them more intensively in the near future, not just for games.

Source: Engadget