CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) is invented by NVIDIA Corporation Pvt. Ltd. First release of CUDA was in the year mid 2007.
CUDA is a Parallel Computing Platform one of its first kind which enables General Purpose Computing (widely known as GPGPU) in a very efficient and easy way. CUDA enables user to exploit the computing power of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) present in underlying hardware. Before the inception of CUDA, one had to use DirectX or OpenGL
