Posted on Monday, December 22 2008 @ 16:54 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
TG Daily
reports NVIDIA released CUDA version 2.1, this update has no new features but adds support for Windows Vista, Red Hat Linux as well as VisualStudio 2008 on Windows XP. There's no word yet about te x86 version NVIDIA promises earlier this year.
The company now offers version 2.1 beta as a free download, adding Windows Vista support for Tesla products and 32-bit debugger support for CUDA on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.x, which is a separate download. Also supported is VisualStudio 2008 support on Windows XP and Vista and Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation for applications that dynamically generate CUDA kernels.
According to Nvidia, new interoperability APIs for Direct3D 9 and Direct3D 10 have been included to accelerate the communication with DirectX applications. There is also “a series of improvements to OpenGL interoperability” as well as “support for recent releases of Linux including Fedora9, OpenSuse 11 and Ubuntu 8.04.”
