NVIDIA chief Jen-Hsun Huang today at its GPU Technology Conference said his company would bring its CUDA general-purpose computing language directly to x86 chips. The approach developed with the Portland Group will let systems without NVIDIA cards handle the code. It will work best with multi-core processors and is being aim at the server market..
Both Mac OS X and Windows have native CUDA support, but a timetable hasn’t beenn announced for when CUDA will be ready to make the switch or which platforms will be supported
The move is potentially a hedge against universal standards such as Microsoft’s DirectCompute and OpenCL.
