We explain what is GPU Computing, advantages of GPU and how it is used? How is GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) different from CPU.

LONDON — Graphics core licensor Imagination Technologies Group plc (Kings Langley, England) is preparing compilers that will be able to assign tasks across both graphics and general-purpose processing ...

"As a result, the CPU scaling predicted by Moore's Law is now dead," Dally suggests, before suggesting that parallel computing will be our saviour.

There’s precedent for this already, with Intel’s Larrabee and IBM’s Cell processor merging CPU and GPU characteristics on a single die, though both struggled with developing for such a new ...

In the world of high-performance computing, graphics processing units are the talk of the town. But all that debate makes it no easier to identify their future place in the greater scheme of ...

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A ACM Computing Surveys 2015 paper by Sparsh Mittal and Jeffrey Vetter provides a survey of CPU-GPU heterogeneous computing techniques. This paper discusses motivation behind such a shift and then ...