CUDA

Compute Unified Device Architecture
CUDA is a proprietary parallel computing platform and application programming interface ( 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. 

CUDA is based on industry-standard C++ set of extensions to enable heterogeneous programming and straightforward APIs to manage devices and memory. CUDA is a platform for general-purpose processing on Nvidia's GPUs.

Historical perspective: Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in 2024, it will be difficult for competitors to catch up with Nvidia because many of the most important open source tools that AI developers use are based on the company's CUDA programming language. For example,AMD's software that translates Nvidia's CUDA code for its own chips doesn't work yet.

NetLingo Classification: Net Programming

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