CUDA 11.6 Toolkit Released

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NVIDIA announces the newest release of the CUDA development environment, CUDA 11.6. This release is focused on enhancing the programming model and performance of your CUDA applications. CUDA continues to push the boundaries of GPU acceleration and lay the foundation for new applications in HPC, visualization, AI, ML and DL, and data science.

CUDA 11.6 has several important features. This post offers an overview of the key capabilities:

GSP driver architecture now default on Turing and Ampere GPUs
New API to allow disabling nodes in instantiated graph
Full support of 128-bit integer type
Cooperative groups namespace update
CUDA compiler update
Nsight Compute 2022.1 release

CUDA 11.6 ships with the R510 driver, an update branch.

Links:
- https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/cuda-11-6-toolkit-new-release-revealed/
- https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads