diginomica

PyTorch Foundation adds Helion and Safetensors - and the open AI stack gets a little harder to ignore

Mark Collier briefed me on two updates under embargo at KubeCon Europe 2026 last month: Helion, which opens up GPU kernel ...
The Next Platform

Inside The Programming Evolution of GPU Computing

Back in 2000, Ian Buck and a small computer graphics team at Stanford University were watching the steady evolution of computer graphics processors for gaming and thinking about how such devices could ...
Communications of the ACM

The Origins of GPU Computing

Government-funded academic research on parallel computing, stream processing, real-time shading languages, and programmable ...
Electronic Design

Programming The CUDA Architecture: A Look At GPU Computing

Graphics processing units (GPUs) were originally designed to perform the highly parallel computations required for graphics rendering. But over the last couple of years, they’ve proven to be powerful ...
The Next Platform

Unified Memory: The Final Piece Of The GPU Programming Puzzle

Support for unified memory across CPUs and GPUs in accelerated computing systems is the final piece of a programming puzzle that we have been assembling for about ten years now. Unified memory has a ...
Neowin

NVIDIA has published GPU source code of its Linux kernel modules and made it open-source

NVIDIA has open-sourced its Linux GPU kernel drivers for products made and released after 2018. This means GPU functionalities like the clock and thermal management are now available for tweaking.