Giving developers something to play with during the holidays, Nvidia has now delivered the 2.1 beta CUDA toolkit and SDK. The newly-released software comes with support for Tesla GPUs on Windows Vista, 32-bit debugger support for CUDA on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.x, VisualStudio 2008 support on Windows XP and Vista and Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation for applications that dynamically generate CUDA kernels.
Moreover, the CUDA 2.1 package features a few new interoperability APIs for Direct3D 9 and Direct3D 10 that accelerate communication to DirectX applications, a series of improvements to OpenGL interoperability, support for Fedora9, OpenSUSE 11 and Ubuntu 8.04, and beta of Linux Profiler 1.1 (which comes as a separate download).
The toolkit is actually
a month old.
Download at
NVIDIA's CUDA site[via]Attention: don't mix 2.0 and 2.1 versions of toolkit and SDK, the demo
simpleD3D10.exe requires
cudaD3D10RegisterResource, which has been introduced in
cudart.dll v2.1
