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Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux for CUDA

Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux 6.2 for CUDA

What is YDEL for CUDA?

CUDA

YDEL is an open source, Linux operating system built for faster, easier, and more reliable GPU Computing. YDEL goes beyond the basic Linux OS and integrates GPU robustness and developmental tools. Developers, end users, and integrators will have the support of the biggest team of experts with over a decade of Linux and multicore development experience.
YDEL dependability empowers your team to focus on your productivity and projects instead of administering Linux.

Key benefits of Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux for CUDA:

  • YDEL for CUDA users can experience up to a 9% performance improvement in some applications.
  • Comprehensive support is offered to paid subscriptions with our skilled team able to assist you with both Linux and CUDA.
  • YDEL's unparalleled integrations means everything you need to write and run CUDA applications is included and configured.
  • YDEL includes multiple versions of CUDA and can easily switch between them via a setting in a configuration file or an environment variable.
  • Never worry about updates affecting your system, Fixstars offers YDEL users greater reliability with our strenuous test procedures that validate GPU computing functionality and performance.

What the GPU community is saying about YDEL for CUDA

"With Fixstars providing direct support for CUDA, more researchers, scientists and HPC programmers will be able to take advantage of the performance benefits enabled by massively parallel GPUs."
Sanford Russell, general manager of GPU Computing at NVIDIA


"Our CUDA application is a database-driven peptide and protein identification system and just compiled and worked with no fuss at all."
Vic Spicer, a Software Developer and Lab manager at the University of Manitoba


"YDEL for CUDA will minimize the cost spent on menial tasks such as trouble-shooting and driver updates, allowing the developer to focus on the CUDA application itself."
Professor Takayuki Aoki, Global Scientific Information and Computer Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology


"YDEL for CUDA is one of the best solution integration solution for NVIDIA GPU in Linux OS."
K.S.LU, CEO, Leadtek Research Inc


"YDEL is the only enterprise Linux distribution that provide strong support for GPU computing. It provides a high-quality, user-friendly environment, featuring default support for CUDA development using Eclipse, and faster execution of CUDA applications. "
Iino Tadamichi, CEO, TOWA Electric Co., Ltd


"Fixstars is one of Japan's earliest pioneers in the field of GPU Computing, and I firmly believe that the release of their Linux Distribution optimized for CUDA will prove to be helpful especially to those new to GPU computing."
Katsuya Nishi, Chairman & CEO, Best Systems, Inc.

Please see the release of March 2, 2010.

Related links

  • GPU Solution
    Fixstars offers total GPU solutions from GPU hardware to application development with CUDA.