Infosys and NVIDIA Announce Technology Partnership

Submitted by Pankaj Lakhotia on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 01:20

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Software giant Infosys Technologies and US based NVIDIA, GPU inventor and world's visual technologies giant, have entered into a partnership to develop NVIDIA CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) Technology based software solutions, as a first step to which would be the set-up of the Infosys- NVIDIA Technology center at the Infosys campus.

The CUDA technology is being viewed as the next big revolution in the technology sector, looking to lend a new meaning to high performance computing. The software has been designed to help developers of various applications to tap into the previously unexplored power of the GPU. This could lead to a new high in performance levels of certain applications.

"CUDA could multiply by fifty times the capability of a computer and reduce run time to the advantage of user enterprises", shared NVIDIA co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.

Santa Clara-headquartered, NVIDIA currently has design centers in Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore. With the partnership, Infosys is looking to make things easier for its customers, all the while finding ways to increase the company's existing expertise and IPS in grid computing and parallel computing.


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