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What is CUDA?

CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a parallel computing platform and programming model developed by NVIDIA. It allows software to use NVIDIA GPUs for general-purpose processing, significantly accelerating computationally intensive tasks. It is commonly used in areas like scientific computing, deep learning, image processing, and video editing.

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What other technologies are related to CUDA?

CUDA Competitor Technologies

OpenCL

OpenCL is a heterogeneous parallel computing framework that offers an alternative to CUDA for programming GPUs and other accelerators.

mentioned alongside CUDA in 75% (6k) of relevant job posts

HIP

HIP is a C++ dialect and runtime API that allows developers to port CUDA code to AMD GPUs with minimal code changes. It is a direct competitor to CUDA.

mentioned alongside CUDA in 79% (1.3k) of relevant job posts

ROCm

ROCm is AMD's open-source software platform for GPU computing, providing an alternative to CUDA for AMD GPUs. It directly competes with CUDA.

mentioned alongside CUDA in 84% (930) of relevant job posts

OpenACC

OpenACC is a directive-based programming model for parallel computing on accelerators, offering an alternative to CUDA for offloading computations to GPUs.

mentioned alongside CUDA in 87% (670) of relevant job posts

SYCL

SYCL is a higher-level programming model built on top of OpenCL, targeting heterogeneous systems. As OpenCL is a CUDA competitor, so is SYCL.

mentioned alongside CUDA in 76% (462) of relevant job posts

CUDA Complementary Technologies

OpenMP

OpenMP is a standard for parallel programming, often used in conjunction with CUDA to parallelize tasks across CPUs and GPUs. It may also be used as a competitor by those avoiding GPU programming.

mentioned alongside CUDA in 48% (2.1k) of relevant job posts

TensorRT

TensorRT is an SDK for high-performance deep learning inference on NVIDIA GPUs, working directly with CUDA to optimize models. It complements CUDA.

mentioned alongside CUDA in 45% (1.8k) of relevant job posts

cuDNN

cuDNN is a library of primitives for deep neural networks. It is built on top of CUDA and provides highly optimized routines for deep learning operations.

mentioned alongside CUDA in 88% (873) of relevant job posts