NVIDIA Launches Parallel CPU and GPU Computing Product

NVIDIA launches a new commercial product - NVIDIA Parallel Nsight , which is a suite of tools that integrate into Visual Studio 2008 SP1 . NVIDIA Parallel Nsight offers tools for developing parallel applications that use multi-core processors and modern GPU accelerators at full capacity.


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New product features include:

• powerful debugger with the ability to view thousands of threads running in parallel;
• debugging code directly on the GPU;
• viewing GPU memory directly in Visual Studio;
• memory leak detection using the CUDA C / C ++ Memory Checker tool;
• code execution time analyzer with capture of API calls, kernel launch, memory exchange;
• detailed visualization of all events in the Visual Studio window;
• filtering and sorting events using report building tools;
• CUDA profiling with GPU performance counters
• graphics tools and debugger with HLSL shader debugging directly on the GPU;
• debug any graphic or shader application;
• graphical inspector with real-time call detection;
• interactive check of the state of the GPU pipelines, visualization of textures, geometry and computational buffers;
• profiler, which will determine the bottlenecks and consumption of CPU resources.

NVIDIA Parallel Nsight supports GeForce 9 , 200 and 400 series video cards. More information about the requirements can be found on this page .

NVIDIA Parallel Nsight will be supplied in two versions: Standard and Professional (contains analyzer). So far, at the time of the release of the preliminary version, Parallel Nsight 1.0 Professional is available for download .

Product licensing information can be found on this page . Please note: academic program participants will be able to license the tool for free.

It is expected that over time the tools will receive an update and support for Visual Studio 2010 .