Built for Speed Graphics Processors for General-Purpose Computing

摘要

While computer gamers are eagerly awaiting the next generation of platforms, the computer scientists of Lawrence Livermore's Graphics Architectures for Intelligence Applications (GAIA) project are tracking the rapidly changing technology, but fora different reason. A team, led by John Johnson of the Computation Directorate, is researching graphics processing units (GPUs)—the highly specialized, low-cost, rendering engines at the heart of the gaming industry—to determine how they might be programmed and used in applications other than virtual entertainment.