Copyright © 2011 NVIDIA Corporation and Wen-mei W. Hwu. All rights reserved.
Introduction
The State of GPU Computing in Data-Intensive Applications
Many of today's data-intensive problems, such as data mining and machine learning, push the boundaries of conventional computing architectures with ever-increasing requirements for greater performance. GPUs are a good match for these applications because of their high memory bandwidth and massive computation power. But achieving high performance for this class of applications using GPUs can be quite challenging ...

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