NVIDIA today announced that it will be working with TopCoder, a competitive software development community, on the CUDA Superhero Challenge, a series of contests for computer programmers who will harness the parallel processing power of the NVIDIA CUDA architecture to solve some of computing’s biggest challenges.

CUDA is cool and is supported now in OS X Snow Leopard and on Windows 7. CUDA lets you harness the power of the GPU for other tasks. Like with any cool computer hardware, software is essential that harnesses it is key.

The first contest, which is open to all eligible developers, begins Sept. 14 and will conclude Sept. 25. $5,000 of prizes will be awarded to five contest winners, who will be announced at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference being held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif., from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, 2009.
If you want to try your CUDA skills to become the CUDA Superhero find the details for the challenge here.