GPUs and the future of parallel computing

IEEE Micro

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 7-17

  Keckler, Stephen W ^a   Dally, William J ^a   Khailany, Brucek ^a   Garland, Michael ^a   Glasco, David ^a  

^a NVIDIA   (United States)

Author keywords

energy efficient computing; GPU; Parallel computer architecture

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING RESEARCH; ENERGY EFFICIENT; GPU; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT COMPUTING; PARALLEL-COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; SINGLE-CHIP; STATE OF THE ART;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

ARTS COMPUTING;

EID: 80054875176     PISSN: 02721732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MM.2011.89     Document Type: Article

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