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Installing Nvidia CUDA on Mac OS X for GPU-Based Parallel Computing

• plg 12y ago
  I thought that OpenCL was supposed to be the "open" standard for GPU computing... why is everyone rallying around CUDA instead? (seemingly)?
  • foxhill 12y ago
    marketing.
  • octopus 12y ago
    Easier to program (at least for me it is easier to understand a piece of CUDA code) and there is a lot of good documentation for CUDA. Another plus for CUDA is that it lets you use C++.
• foxhill 12y ago
  given that OS X ships with OpenCL, which already runs on nvidia hardware, and is open, and portable, i don' t understand why anyone would want to switch to CUDA.