New NVidia Fermi Programming Guides

With Fermi on the horizon, NVidia has published a new collection of programmer guides aimed at helping you get up to speed on the new technology.  You can download them (or view them online via Google Docs):

• Fermi Compatability Guide (View Online)
• Fermi Tuning Guide (View Online)
• CUDA Programming Guide for CUDA Toolkit 3.0 (View Online)

Check em out, and let us know if you find anything new in there! I’m still digging through them myself.  One thing to note:

• Existing CUDA applications can prepare for upcoming Fermi hardware by using PTX versions instead of CUBIN.  Make sure you have NVidia Drivers R195.xx or newer and use PTX JIT (with environment flag CUDA_FORCE_PTX_JIT=1).

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .