Rob Armstrong

Rob Armstrong is a principal technical product manager for the CUDA toolkit. For over 20 years he has focused on accelerating software with heterogeneous hardware platforms, and has particular interest in computer architecture and hardware/software interaction.
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Data Center / Cloud

Just Released: CUDA Toolkit 12.6

The release supports GB100 capabilities and new library enhancements to cuBLAS, cuFFT, cuSOLVER, cuSPARSE, as well as the release of Nsight Compute 2024.3. 1 MIN READ
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Simulation / Modeling / Design

NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules

With the R515 driver, NVIDIA released a set of Linux GPU kernel modules in May 2022 as open source with dual GPL and MIT licensing. The initial release targeted... 7 MIN READ
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Generative AI

Runtime Fatbin Creation Using the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 12.4 Compiler

CUDA Toolkit 12.4 introduced a new nvFatbin library for creating fatbins at runtime. Fatbins, otherwise known as NVIDIA device code fat binaries, are containers... 11 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design

CUDA Toolkit 12.4 Enhances Support for NVIDIA Grace Hopper and Confidential Computing

The latest release of CUDA Toolkit, version 12.4, continues to push accelerated computing performance using the latest NVIDIA GPUs. This post explains the new... 9 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design

CUDA Toolkit 12.3 Delivers New Features for Accelerated Computing

The latest release of CUDA Toolkit continues to push the envelope of accelerated computing performance using the latest NVIDIA GPUs. New features of this... 4 MIN READ
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Simulation / Modeling / Design

CUDA Toolkit 12.2 Unleashes Powerful Features for Boosting Applications

The latest release of CUDA Toolkit 12.2 introduces a range of essential new features, modifications to the programming model, and enhanced support for hardware... 8 MIN READ