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Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA)

Definition
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Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) is NVIDIA's parallel computing platform and programming model for running general-purpose code on GPUs.

Topics
Compute and Hardware Programming
Synonyms
CUDA
URL
https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit
Related
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) High-Performance Computing (HPC) Compute Cluster

Why it matters in GWAS

CUDA-enabled software can accelerate selected genomics and machine-learning workloads, especially operations with heavy matrix computation and high parallelism.

Example usage

"The deep-learning model for variant effect prediction used CUDA to train on multiple GPUs."

Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) High-Performance Computing (HPC) Compute Cluster Slurm Deep Learning
Related-term network

Click any node to open that term page.

Node order. The current term is first. Next come every page linked from Related terms, in the same top-to-bottom order as that list. Then new terms appear in two-hop layers: for each of those direct neighbors (in that same order), their related terms are appended if not already listed. A third pass does the same for two-hop nodes. The walk stops when a fixed maximum number of nodes is reached.

References

  • NVIDIA. CUDA Toolkit Documentation. https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/
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