William Stein a écrit :
>
> 
> What is CUDA?  Why should the typical read of sage-devel or user
> of Sage care?  Any chance you could write a paragraph or two and
> about this?  It might get a lot more Sage developers excited about
> what you're doing (which is I'm sure extremely exciting).
> 
>  -- William
>

Using Graphical processors (GPU) for computations:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html#state=home

As far as I know, but may be I'm wrong now, GPUs can only compute with 
floats (single precision)... This will not be very convenient for, say, 
number theory. But may be I'm wrong.

t.d.

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