PopSci's Best of What's New 2007

Computing
Nvidia Cuda

SUPER-COMPUTER cards

The powerful processors in a graphics card usually do nothing but render images on your monitor. With Nvidia’s new CUDA programming tools, researchers can instead use the chips on the GeForce 8800 card or the more powerful Tesla C870 graphics processor to analyze diseases, predict the weather, and run other complex computations—at a fraction of the cost of a supercomputer. From $300; nvidia.com

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