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CUDA was released in 2007 and the development of it started even earlier - possibly even in the 90s. Back then nobody else cared about GPU compute. OpenCL came
by zirgs 3y ago
CUDA was released in 2007 and the development of it started even earlier - possibly even in the 90s. Back then nobody else cared about GPU compute. OpenCL came out 2 years after that.
- killerstorm 3y agoNot true. People got interested in general-purpose GPU compute (GPGPU) in early 2000s when video cards with programmable shaders became available. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_graphics_processing_units#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_g... People made a programming language & a compiler/runtime for GPGPU in 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrookGPU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrookGPU
- hot_gril 3y agoEverything has old beginnings that the specialists will remember, but GPU compute really reached mass popularity and became a large selling point for Nvidia in the 2010s.