Copyright © 2011 NVIDIA Corporation and Wen-mei W. Hwu. All rights reserved.
Introduction
Wen-mei W. Hwu
State of GPU Computing
We are entering the golden age of GPU computing. Since the introduction of CUDA in 2007, more than 100 million computers with CUDA-capable GPUs have been shipped to end users. Unlike the previous GPGPU shader programming models, CUDA supports parallel programming in C. From my own experience in teaching CUDA programming, C programmers can begin to write basic CUDA programs after only attending one lecture and reading one textbook chapter. With such a low barrier of entry, researchers all over the world have been engaged in developing new algorithms and applications to take advantage of the extreme floating point execution ...
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