CUDA

CUDA is NVIDIA's parallel computing platform: it unlocks the massive core count of GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) for accelerated general-purpose processing.

CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) is NVIDIA's proprietary parallel computing platform and API, officially released in 2007. It transforms the GPU from a graphics processor into a high-performance compute engine, allowing developers to offload compute-intensive tasks from the CPU to the GPU's thousands of cores for massive parallelism . The CUDA Toolkit provides the necessary environment: a C/C++ compiler, libraries (like cuBLAS, cuFFT), and debugging tools . This framework is the foundation for modern High-Performance Computing (HPC), delivering significant speed-ups (e.g., 30x-100x for certain workloads) across critical fields like AI (deep learning model training), scientific simulations, and computational finance .

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-zone