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General purpose computing on graphics processor. From rendering to massively parallel computing

Author: Dominique HOUZET

Publication date: August 10, 2016, Review date: September 27, 2023

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1. From CPU to GPGPU

This section looks at the developments in CPUs and GPUs that are driving the current interest in graphics card computing. The CPU has evolved towards parallelism and the GPU has become programmable and massively parallel. This has prompted developers to take a renewed interest in parallel programming after the 1990s of the Connection Machine and the Transputer .

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