CUDA had been downloaded 1.5 million times by 2012, up from 150K in 2008.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
The second judge would not resolve this claim; the verdict shown is the first judge's.
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
What would count as true or false
Judge as of May 2012. The claim has two figures: cumulative CUDA downloads of 1.5 million by 2012, up from 150,000 in 2008. True: NVIDIA's own published figures (GTC 2012 keynote slides, investor presentations, press releases) give about 1.5 million cumulative CUDA downloads by 2012 and about 150,000 in 2008. Mostly true: both figures are approximately right but the dates or counting basis differ slightly (for example the 150K figure is from 2007 or 2009, or counts toolkit downloads only). Mixed: one figure is confirmed and the other is materially different. Mostly false: the 1.5 million figure is from a different year or a different measure (such as CUDA-capable GPUs or developers), presented as downloads. False: NVIDIA's figures for the period are materially different (for example well under 1 million downloads by 2012).
Set before the research began.
Evidence (4)
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E1 Introduction to GPU Computing Semantic Scholar PDF host (slide deck; original author not shown) Own record
“150K CUDA Downloads”
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E2 Introduction to GPU Computing Semantic Scholar PDF host (slide deck; original author not shown) Own record
“1.5M CUDA Downloads”
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E3 Major New NVIDIA CUDA Release Makes It Faster and Easier to Accelerate Scientific Research With GPUs NVIDIA · 26 January 2012 Own record
“In addition, the CUDA parallel programming platform has been downloaded more than 1.2 million times to date.”
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E4 NVIDIA GPU Tech Conference report - fxguide fxguide · 20 March 2013
“In 2008, there were 100 million installed CUDA GPUs and 150,000 CUDA programming kit downloads.”
Reasoning
An independent report confirms 150,000 CUDA downloads in 2008 [E4], and NVIDIA reported more than 1.2 million downloads in January 2012 [E3]. The 1.5 million figure appears only in an undated slide deck that does not say which period it covers [E2], so the evidence does not establish the 2012 figure.
Cite this claim
Jensen Huang, “CUDA had been downloaded 1.5 million times by 2012, up from 150K in 2008.” (said May 2012). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_521fcc96f653, method 0.1.0+03d23c0e, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_521fcc96f653
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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