NVIDIA and Intel companies popularize applications, which use the video card computational resources for accelerating different kind of calculations and other untypical tasks,in this case it is necessary to maximally facilitate the programmers work.
Intel with larrabee guarantees the succession : same methods as processors programming due to the use of x86- compatible architecture. NVIDIA explains, that under CUDA is hidden the familiar to many programmers C language .
Associate with reference to the official AMD Representatives reports that the company intends to change its strategy with respect to calculations acceleration by video chips. The technology stream, low-level programming methods, could not ensure a large number of worshippers . Now AMD is intended to accelerate calculations using the standard directX 11 and OpenCL. The first graphic product with support to this possibility will appear in the first quarter 2009.
We deal here with RV870 video chip, which will support DirectX 11.