by Mark Hachman 09.30.09
Nvidia launched its second-generation GPU computing architecture on Wednesday, code-named "Fermi". Oak Ridge National Laboratory will design a supercomputer based on the Fermi, an executive said. The "Fermi" announcement kicked off Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference, which will run the remainder of this week in Silicon Valley. Fermi will serve as next generation of CUDA, a programming architecture Nvidia developed in 2006 in conjunction with the GeForce GeForce 8800 architecture, which included a unified compute processor that could either perform graphics-specific tasks or could be programmed in C to be used for general-purpose computing. Because they do specialized tasks – computing graphics – extremely quickly and efficiently, scientific applications that do a number of tasks over and over again could take advantage of the DSP-like graphics-chip architecture. The GT200, announced in 2008, added dual-precision floating point technology, which the GeForce 8800 lacked, according to Nathan Brookwood, an analyst with Insight64.
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