NVIDIA CUDA Receives Its Biggest Update Ever!
CUDA 13.1 drops: Tile model, Green Contexts, 2× FP64 cuBLAS, rewritten guide—NVIDIA calls it “biggest CUDA update ever.”
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A few hours ago, NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 13.1 was officially released. NVIDIA stated: “This is the biggest update in 20 years.”
This most extensive and comprehensive update since the CUDA platform’s inception in 2006 includes:
The release of NVIDIA CUDA Tile, NVIDIA’s tile-based programming model that can be used to abstract specialized hardware, including Tensor Cores.
Runtime API exposure of green contexts (referring to exposing so-called Green Contexts - “lightweight, concurrently schedulable contexts or execution environments” - for external caller usage).
Double-precision and single-precision emulation in NVIDIA cuBLAS.
A completely rewritten CUDA Programming Guide, designed for both CUDA beginners and advanced programmers.
Let’s take a closer look below.
CUDA Tile
CUDA Tile is the core update of NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 13.1. It is a tile-based programming model that enables writing algorithms at a higher level and abstracts the details of specialized hardware (such as Tensor Cores).