Partners in CUDA
Also on the OpenCL front, NVIDIA says it has added new extensions to OpenCL 1.0, including support for double precision, OpenGL interoperability and the new OpenCL Installable Client Device (ICD). "NVIDIA is the only vendor supporting OpenCL features beyond the minimum conformance level," the company boasts in a release.
Nexus is next on NVIDIA's list, with the firm claiming the beta release will give developers "an immediate boost in productivity."
As for the firm's "ecosystem partners," The Portland Group (PGI) has released a CUDA Fortran compiler mainly useful to scientists studying ocean modeling, weather forecasting, environmental modeling, seismic analysis and bioinformatics.
Meanwhile, Allinea and TotalView launched a couple of professional HPC debugging products which purport to offer CUDA GPU features that complement existing capabilities for parallel debugging using MPI, OpenMP and pthreads on the Linux platform. These let developers debug apps running on hybrid clusters of x86-64 CPUs and Tesla GPU-based servers.
Doing the financial math, NVIDIA is also touting certain numerical analysis packages like MATLAB from Mathworks, Mathematica from Wolfram Research and LabVIEW from National Instruments, as well as some beefed up CUDA-accelerated libraries.