FICO Announces FICO Xpress Optimization Suite Includes Nvidia CUDA-X Libraries

Benzinga · 3d ago

Global analytics software leader FICO (NYSE: FICO) today announced that the latest release of its FICO® Xpress Optimization suite includes the integration of NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries to help solve massive computational problems in a fraction of the time. FICO Xpress 9.8 features a GPU-accelerated implementation of the hybrid gradient algorithm, yielding up to 50x speedups.

The hybrid gradient algorithm is useful for getting faster solutions to extremely large, dense problems — those featuring tens or hundreds of millions of non-zeros in the problem matrix — due to its lower memory overhead. NVIDIA CUDA-X is a suite of GPU-accelerated libraries and frameworks for building applications that deliver dramatically higher performance than CPU alternatives across data processing, AI, and high-performance computing.