Back in 2000, Ian Buck and a small computer graphics team at Stanford University were watching the steady evolution of computer graphics processors for gaming and thinking about how such devices could ...

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Whether your chip is running a vintage computer game or the latest DeepSeek model, it’ll reward you for speaking its native ...

There are few people as visible in high performance computing programming circles as Michael Wolfe—and fewer still with level of experience. With 20 years working on PGI compilers and another 20 years ...

As the name Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) suggests, GPU processors are designed for image and video processing on computers–but they’re also optimized for extremely fast, highly parallel computation ...

Nvidia has made improvements to its underlying software tools to make it easier to write programs for faster execution across CPUs and graphics processors. The company on Thursday announced CUDA 6, ...

Have you wanted to get into GPU programming with CUDA but found the usual textbooks and guides a bit too intense? Well, help is at hand in the form of a series of increasingly difficult programming ...

The University of Delaware has been named a GPU Education Center by NVIDIA, a computer technology company that has pioneered GPU-accelerated computing. GPU Education Centers are institutions ...

Every few years or so, a development in computing results in a sea change and a need for specialized workers to take advantage of the new technology. Whether that’s COBOL in the 60s and 70s, HTML in ...

GPU stands for graphics processing unit, but these tiny chips can be used for much more than just graphics. Google is using GPUs to model the human brain, and Salesforce leans on them as a way of ...

In this video, Pranay Reddy Kommera describes his prize-winning poster, “Design of a Distributed Memory, Multi-GPU Implementation of a 2D DG Core.” Two University of Wyoming graduate students earned a ...