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Have you ever heard of General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Hardware? Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are high-performance many-core processors that can be used to accelerate a wide range of applications. Recently many applications have been developed using GPUs.

It’s not a long time that NVIDIA released the 1.1.1 version of a media converter, called ‘badaboom‘. It uses CUDA-enabled GPUs for video format conversion. In this approach, the required time for video conversion is reduced and in the meanwhile you can use your CPU for your everyday work. As NVIDIA stated before, about badaboom, you can experience the blazing speed of the first ever GPU accelerated video transcoder! Powered by NVIDIA CUDA Technology. CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architechure) is a parallel computing architecture developed by NVIDIA, which is the computing engine in NVIDIA GPUs, and is accessible to software developers through standard programming lanuages.

If you want to download the free 30-day trial version go http://nzone.download.nvidia.com/nodlm/Badaboom_Setup_1.1.0.132_Trial.exe.