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General-purpose computing on graphics processing units

General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU, or less often GPGP) is the use of a graphics processing unit (GPU), which typically handles computation only for computer graphics, to perform computation in applications traditionally handled by the central processing unit (CPU). The use of multiple video cards in one computer, or large…

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General-purpose computing on graphics processing units

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gpu gpus gpgpu data processing computing graphics stream used parallel cpu operation using one nvidia operations also computer memory element

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Sh/RapidMindinstance ofThis cumbersome translation was obviated by the advent of general-purpose programming languages and APIs0.80text
Brookinstance ofThis cumbersome translation was obviated by the advent of general-purpose programming languages and APIs0.80text
Accelerator.These were followed by Nvidia's CUDAinstance ofThis cumbersome translation was obviated by the advent of general-purpose programming languages and APIs0.80text
which allowed programmers to ignore the underlying graphical concepts in favor of more common high-performance computing conceptsinstance ofThis cumbersome translation was obviated by the advent of general-purpose programming languages and APIs0.80text
rack computinginstance ofgigantic-data-level tasks thus may be parallelized even further via specialized setups0.80text
high-dynamic-range imaginginstance ofto obtain effects0.80text
S3 Graphicsinstance ofother vendors0.80text
XGI supported a mixture of formats up to FP24.The implementations of floating point on Nvidia GPUs are mostly IEEE compliantinstance ofother vendors0.80text
texture coordinatesinstance ofcreates fragments and interpolates per-vertex constants0.80text
colorTexture unitinstance ofcreates fragments and interpolates per-vertex constants0.80text

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