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Using GPU’s for general computation

How the GPU came to be used for general computation.

If a program can be broken up into many threads all doing the same thing on different data (ideally executing arithmetic operations), a GPU will probably be able to do this an order of magnitude faster than a CPU.

Posted 2010/03/31 at 10:56pm / compsci / computing
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