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General-purpose graphics processing units deliver new capabilities

By Peter Mandl and Udeepta Bordoloi, Advanced Micro Devices

This article reviews factors driving GPGPU adoption, describes AMD and NVIDIA GPGPU architectures, and compares some competing parallel processing alternatives. From a programming perspective, the reader is introduced to key concepts behind heterogeneous OpenCL computing, illustrated by a simple example.

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