GPGPU.org :: General-Purpose computation on Graphics Processing Units - 2 views
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Carlos Lizarraga Celaya on 15 Dec 10GPGPU stands for General-Purpose computation on Graphics Processing Units, also known as GPU Computing. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are high-performance many-core processors capable of very high computation and data throughput. Once specially designed for computer graphics and difficult to program, today's GPUs are general-purpose parallel processors with support for accessible programming interfaces and industry-standard languages such as C. Developers who port their applications to GPUs often achieve speedups of orders of magnitude vs. optimized CPU implementations. The goal of GPGPU.org is to catalog the current and historical use of GPUs for general-purpose computation, and to provide a central resource for GPGPU software developers.