== History and Current State of CUDA ==

NVIDIA’s first CUDA architecture was called Fermi.

= CUDA Application Domains =

“CUDA and Nvidia GPUs have been adopted in many areas that need high floating-point computing performance, as summarized pictorially in the image above. A more comprehensive list includes:

Due to its proprietary nature, a limitation of CUDA is the number of devices supported and systems it can extend. This proprietary nature allows NVIDIA to completely maximize performance, resulting in CUDA outperforming OpenCL, at least on any given CUDA enabled device.

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