信息科学类专业英语Lesson 3 Utilisation of the GPU Architecture for HPC.pptVIP

1 Introduction　　Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), which commonly accompany standard Central Processing Units (CPUs) in consumer PCs, are special purpose processors designed to efficiently perform the calculations necessary to generate visual output from program data. Video games have particularly high rendering demands, and this market has driven the development of GPUs, which in comparison to CPUs, offer extremely high performance for the monetary cost. 　　Naturally, interest has been generated as to whether the processing power which GPUs offer can be harnessed for more general purpose calc