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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 ...

The answer is GPU, which stands for “Graphics Processing Unit.” It is a kind of specialized hardware designed to deliver massive computational power. Through GPUs, we are able to power ChatGPT, build ...

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 ...

AMD, Intel, and startups like Spectral Compute line up to reduce hardware lock-in and snatch chip giant's computing crown ...

Today's programmable GPUs are the latest instantiation of programmable accelerators. Going back to the 1970s, the Floating Point Systems AP-120 and FPS-164 attached processors provided mainframe ...

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 ...

So you’ve got this big, powerful video card stuck to your computer, just sitting there on idle unless you’re playing a game or rendering something. Why not put it to work? Nvidia has made it possible ...

While the rumored delay of the iPhone SDK may push its release date back another week or two, antsy Mac developers have the chance to fool around with another new toolkit and SDK thanks to graphics ...

The graphics architecture Vega from AMD, underlying graphics cards such as the Radeon VII and Radeon PRO VII, is slated for cessation of maintenance support in the ROCm GPU programming software stack.