I have a card with 96 CUDA cores on an 2nd gen Sandy Bridge on CentOS. Not sure if that's enough for your needs.
I guess CentOS will have g++ and gnuplot in its repositories, but not so sure about nasm (the assembler). I've develeoped everything under ubuntu but it shouldn't be a problem. I also guess Sandy Bridge is compatible with SSE2 and the XMM co-processor, after all is intel.
Don't you know what GPU model do you have? 96 cores will be fine anyway, but I'm not sure if your machine is better or worse than speedmann's.
What does your program do? Mining? Or are you cracking government passwords or something sketchy?
It has different names: Evolutionary artificial neural networks, neuro-evolution...Is basically a machine learning technique combining neural networks and genetic algorithms.
What does my program learn?
To correctly calculate AND or OR from 2 bit vectors (very basic classification tasks), XOR (harder, you need NN with more than 1 layer) and to play reversi/othello, a board game.