CUDA
(Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a proprietary parallel computing platform and application programming interface model created by . It allows software developers to use a -enabled (Graphics Processing Unit) for general-purpose processing, a technique known as . By providing a direct programming path to the 's virtual instruction set and parallel computational elements, it significantly accelerates compute-intensive applications in , , and . The platform supports languages such as C, C++, and Fortran, and serves as the foundational hardware-software interface for popular frameworks like and , enabling efficient execution of and other operations essential for training .
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