CUDA 1.0 Released

Accelerated Computing Announcements
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NVIDIA would like to announce that version 1.0 of the CUDA Toolkit and SDK is now available.

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda.html#downloads

The 1.0 release of the CUDA Toolkit includes a number of new features, including:

    [*] Additional hardware support:

      [*] Quadro FX 5600

      [*] Quadro FX 4600

      [*] GeForce 8800 Ultra

      [*] GeForce 8600 GTS

      [*] GeForce 8600 GT

      [*] GeForce 8500 GT

    [*] New operating system support (32 and 64 bit versions):

      [*] Windows XP

      [*] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.8

      [*] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.3

      [*] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4

      [*] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0

      [*] SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.0

      [*] SUSE Linux 10.1

      [*] SUSE Linux 10.2

    [*] Compiler and Toolchain improvements:

      [*] PTX ISA support

      [*] 64-bit integer support

      [*] maxrregcount option added to NVCC

    [*] Improved math library

      [*] Additional functions added: sincos(), rsqrt(), exp10()

      [*] Improved accuracy of mathematical functions

    [*] Asynchronous launches

    [*] Asynchronous device to device memory copy

We strongly encourage all users to upgrade to this version since it also includes many bug fixes.

The 1.0 release of the CUDA SDK includes many new code examples, including optimized versions of:

    [*] 64-bin histogram

    [*] Separable image convolution

    [*] Image convolution using FFT

    [*] Sobel edge-detection filter

    [*] The Mersenne Twister pseudo-random number generator

    [*] Financial applications - Monte-Carlo option pricing, Black-Scholes option pricing and binomial option pricing.