THE GPU COMPUTING ERA GPU COMPUTING IS AT A TIPPING POINT, BECOMING MORE WIDELY USED IN DEMANDING CONSUMER APPLICATIONS AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING. THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES THE RAPID EVOLUTION OF GPU ARCHITECTURES—FROM GRAPHICS PROCESSORS TO MASSIVELY P

......As we enter the era of GPU computing, demanding applications with substantial parallelism increasingly use the massively parallel computing capabilities of GPUs to achieve superior performance and efficiency. Today GPU computing enables applications that we previously thought infeasible because of long execu-tion times. With the GPU’s rapid evolution from a configurable graphics processor to a pro-grammable parallel processor, the ubiqui-tous GPU in every PC, laptop, desktop, and workstation is a many-core multi-threaded multiprocessor that excels a