The GPU computing era

IEEE Micro

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 56-69

  Nickolls, John ^a   Dally, William J ^a  

^a NVIDIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CUDA; Fermi GPU architecture; GPU computing; GPU coprocessing; Heterogeneous CPU+; NVIDIA.; Scalable parallel computing; Tesla GPU architecture

Indexed keywords

COPROCESSING; CUDA; FERMI GPU ARCHITECTURE; GPU COMPUTING; PARALLEL COMPUTING;

FERMIONS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 77951154340     PISSN: 02721732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MM.2010.41     Document Type: Article

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