Nvidia releases Geforce Power Pack

NVIDIA HAS RELEASED the much vaunted Geforce Power Pack, for desktop Geforce 8 and higher cards.

Obviously the company trying its best to ignore the current over-heating problems with the Geforce, by freely giving away a plethora of CUDA based software - and legacy support of its acquired Physx technology.

Included in the Geforce Power Pack are Stanford University’s Folding@home distributed-computing, protein-folding client, a 30-day trial version of Elemental Technologies'Badaboom video transcoder, the Unreal Tournament Physx mod, several tech demos, and a 'full' game - Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction.

At least if you're not playing games, you may be able to further the research into protein misfolding, and subsequently a list of diseases - including cancer.

Most importantly, the new drivers included in the pack (WHQL Geforce graphics driver 177.83) provide Physx support on the GPU, via Nvidia's proprietary CUDA.

All of the 80 million plus Geforce 8 Series and higher GPUs currently being used in the market are CUDA-enabled, which Nvidia claims is the "largest installed base of general-purpose, parallel-computing processors ever created".

Considering the current melt-down, this could quickly reduced in number.

Warning: the pack will launch a Java based download manager, which will constantly come back into focus while you're trying to do something - like writing an article.

You can go grab the power pack, here at the official Nvidia UK site. µ