Fixstars releases Linux OS for CUDA

Fixstars Corporation, a Tokyo-based multicore software provider, has released Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux (YDEL) for CUDA. The operating system is aimed at NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate graphics and GPGPU applications (such as financial services, image processing). According to the HPCWire article, until recently, Fixstars focused mainly on Power CPUs and the IBM Cell Broadband Engine. The YDEL release represents the "first commercial Linux distribution for GPU computing".