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Follow UsBANGALORE, INDIA: Solution provider for GPU Computing, NVIDIA has announced the release of NVIDIA Parallel Nsight software, first development environment for GPU-accelerated applications that work with Microsoft Visual Studio.
“With more than six million developers, Visual Studio is one of the world’s most popular development environments for Windows-based applications and services,” said Sanford Russell, general manager of GPU Computing at NVIDIA.
By adding functionality specifically for GPU Computing developers, Parallel Nsight makes the power of the GPU more accessible than ever before, added Russell.
High performance computing (HPC) developers are increasingly tapping the massively parallel processing capabilities of GPUs and Windows HPC Server 2008. NVIDIA Parallel Nsight connects by providing professional tools required to develop and deploy HPC cluster applications said a press release.
“Research shows that developers believe the most difficult tasks when developing parallel applications are debugging, performance tuning and designing parallel algorithms,” said David Rich, director, technical computing at Microsoft Corp. “By integrating GPU computing into Visual Studio, NVIDIA’s Parallel Nsight is transforming the way GPU-based parallel computing applications are developed for Windows.”
Visual Studio developers can now use Parallel Nsight to debug CUDA C/C++, or DirectCompute applications on the GPU using the same familiar tools and techniques as on the CPU. Parallel Nsight also provides the analysis tools that give developers the information required to achieve the highest levels of GPGPU application performance.
“NVIDIA Parallel Nsight has become our daily development tool when working with our CUDA-based applications such as SimHD and H.264 encoder,” said George Tang, ArcSoft’s vice president and general manager of Video and Home Entertainment Group.
Parallel Nsight also represents the premier environment for graphics development, delivering the DirectX 11 tools required by graphics developers to quickly and efficiently develop today’s top game titles and visual computing applications.
Anton Kaplanyan, lead researcher at Crytek said, “Game developers are leveraging both the GPU and CPU to achieve these new levels of realism and Parallel Nsight is the first toolbox in the world that allows us to look under the hood of the GPU, and makes parallel debugging not only possible but pleasant, significantly accelerating DirectX 11 development.”
NVIDIA Parallel Nsight software supports Windows HPC Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Vista, which works closely with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Professional edition.