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plg on Aug 16, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Installing Nvidia CUDA on Mac OS X for GPU-Based P...

I thought that OpenCL was supposed to be the "open" standard for GPU computing... why is everyone rallying around CUDA instead? (seemingly)?

octopus on Aug 17, 2014 | [–]

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 on Aug 16, 2014 | [–]

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