Chapter 2
History of GPU Computing
Chapter Outline
To CUDA C and OpenCL programmers, GPUs are massively parallel numeric computing processors programmed in C with extensions. One does not need to understand graphics algorithms or terminology to be able to program these processors. However, understanding the graphics heritage of these processors illuminates the strengths and weaknesses of them with respect to major computational patterns. In particular, the history helps to clarify the rationale behind major architectural design decisions of modern programmable GPUs: massive multithreading, relatively small cache memories compared ...
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