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What is required to program the accelerator?

A customer has an E850 and wants to add a GPU to enhance their financial trading application.
What is required to program the accelerator?

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A.
CUDA

B.
OpenCL

C.
QEMU

D.
OPAL

Explanation:
C/C++ CUDA programming support for POWER8 was first introduced with CUDA Toolkit 5.5 for Ubuntu 14.10
ppc64le.
The toolkit comes with tools and libraries that allow development of CUDA applications on Power including:
* GPU-accelerated libraries – provides many libraries and APIs, as for example, cuBLAS, cuFFT, cuSPARSE,
Thrust.
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-2e95-46f2-817d-44a4f27eba32/
entry/how_to_develop_nvidia_cuda_applications_on_ibm_power8?lang=en


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