Posted on Thursday, June 25 2009 @ 1:30 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Bright Side of News
reports The Portland Group (PGI) is working on a new Fortan compiler that uses NVIDIA GPUs for increased performance:
On the first day of annual International Conference on Supercomputing in Hamburg, Germany, PGI and nVidia announced that PGI will release the "Fortran language specification for CUDA GPUs". With availability in November of this year [in time for you know what], this announcement represents the highest level of support for GPU-accelerated Fortran.
While we were surprised that nVidia remained silent on the whole CUDA development for own GPU Technology Conference happening at the end of September, nVidia is looking to expand CUDA architecture from the world of SIMD to MIMD and attack CPUs in HPC space [High Performance Computing].
