How General-Purpose can a GPU be?

The use of graphics processing units (GPUs) in general-purpose computation (GPGPU) is a growing field. GPU instruction sets, while implementing a graphics pipeline, draw from a range of single instruction multiple datastream (SIMD) architectures characteristic of the heyday of supercomputers. Yet on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Philip Machanick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists 2015-12-01
Series:South African Computer Journal
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Online Access:http://sacj.cs.uct.ac.za/index.php/sacj/article/view/347