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Getting Started with CUDA

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Some Design Goals<br />

Scale to 100’s of cores, 1000’s of parallel<br />

threads<br />

Let programmers focus on parallel algorithms<br />

Not on the mechanics of a parallel programming<br />

language<br />

Enable heterogeneous systems (i.e. CPU + GPU)<br />

CPU and GPU are separate devices <strong>with</strong> separate<br />

DRAMs<br />

© 2008 NVIDIA Corporation.

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