Another is the 1970 Hemi Cuda convertible, one of only 14 made and the only one to be exported that year to England.

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Efforts by NVIDIA with CUDA changed this in higher-end application.

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Hyper-Q -- This enables multiple CPU cores to simultaneously use the CUDA architecture cores on a single Kepler GPU. This dramatically increases GPU utilization, slashing CPU idle times and advancing programmability.

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Featuring twice the number of CUDA cores and twice the graphics memory over previous generations, these new Quadro GPUs also incorporate NVIDIA Optimus technology, maximising battery life by automatically powering the GPU only when needed.

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The company made some changes in its hardware and invested heavily in supporting software and its CUDA programming architecture, now in Release 4.0, which makes it easier to program and to move applications to the GPUs.

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The development of CUDA, a parallel computing architecture developed by Nvidia, the leading GPU company, in 2006-2007, changed everything, said Hanweck, who founded Hanweck Associates, to develop a low latency, real-time options analytics engine to price and manage risk for options using GPUs.

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