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General-Purpose Computation Using Graphics Hardware
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IntroductionGPGPU stands for General-Purpose computation on GPUs. With the increasing programmability of commodity graphics processing units (GPUs), these chips are capable of performing more than the specific graphics computations for which they were designed. They are now capable coprocessors, and their high speed makes them useful for a variety of applications. The goal of this page is to catalog the current and historical use of GPUs for general-purpose computation.
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On November 14th, 2002 Mark Harris created a web page on his personal site at the University of North Carolina to track the nascent research area of general-purpose computation on GPUs, naming it "GPGPU". A year later that web page became GPGPU.org. GPGPU became an exciting research area, and GPUs are now being used in the "real world" of science, engineering, and business. You can see the original GPGPU web page (November 20, 2002) here, and an early version after it became GPGPU.org (August 6, 2003).
We'd like to thank everone who has contributed news, forum posts, and other content for GPGPU.org; this site would not exist without you. We encourage everyone to submit any and all GPGPU-related news using the "submit news" link in the sidebar. GPGPU.org depends on user-submitted news for its continued success! Posted: 15 Nov 2007 [GPGPU /Site News] # New GPGPU Tutorials added to GPGPU.org Developer Page We have added links to some great introductory GPGPU tutorials to the Developer Page. These tutorials, written by Dominik Goeddeke from Dortmund University, cover basic GPGPU concepts, parallel reductions, and fast data transfers.
Posted: 04 Jan 2007 [GPGPU /Site News] # The Official GPGPU FAQ (also happy birthday GPGPU.org!) We almost didn't notice, but when the renewal notice for our domain arrived it pointed out that on August 1st, 2005 GPGPU.org turned 2 years old! To celebrate, we've added a wiki, and a few of the regulars on the forums have started The Official GPGPU FAQ. Give it a look. (Whadya know, the 1st was Phil Scott's birthday, too! Happy Birthday, Phil!)
Posted: 11 Aug 2005 [GPGPU /Site News] # New Feature: GPGPU Forums RSS Feed The forums at GPGPU.org have proven quite popular. To keep them up to date with the latest web technology, we've added RSS syndication to the forums. This way, you can follow GPGPU discussions through any RSS-enabled "feed reader" (such as NetNewsWire, Feed Demon, or Firefox). Simply specify the URL http://www.gpgpu.org/forums/rss.php". GPGPU.org has always had RSS available for the main news page. The URL for that feed is http://www.gpgpu.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/index.rss. (Note that you can also follow specific news categories by placing a path between blosxom.cgi and index.rss in the preceding URL, such as http://www.gpgpu.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/Advanced Rendering/index.rss)
Posted: 29 Jan 2005 [GPGPU /Site News] # (Update 29 Jan 2005: Problems Solved.)
To our faithful readers and new visitors, please bear with us as we work out system problems after recent upgrades at our web host, ibiblio.org. We thank you for your patience. (While you wait: "Looks like somebody tried to cram-a-lam a swiss cake roll into the disk drive.")
Posted: 20 Jan 2005 [GPGPU /Site News] # Site News: New Brook for GPUs Forums Added In cooperation with the creators of BrookGPU, GPGPU.org has added discussion forums for beginner and general/advanced Brook topics. Brook users of all levels can use these forums to discuss questions, experiences, and other information with other Brook users and with the developers of BrookGPU.
Posted: 26 May 2004 [GPGPU /Site News] # GPGPU.org Launches New Developer Page We are proud to announce an entirely new developer page here at GPGPU.org. On this page you will find a growing number of programming and GPGPU development resources. Content on the page will include tutorials, sample code, utilities, and more. Check back often for updates! In addition, most source code resources posted on the developer page will be made available as open source software hosted at our new SourceForge site, gpgpu.sourceforge.net. There you will be able to download the latest releases, and check out code from the CVS repository.
Posted: 05 May 2004 [GPGPU /Site News] # Announcing GPGPU.org (and .com) GPGPU now has it's own WWW domain! We have registered gpgpu.org and gpgpu.com. We plan to add new features to GPGPU in the future. Possible additions include a discussion forum, benchmark and utility code repository, and more. To start, we've made the site searchable (use the search box on the right). We received much positive feedback during SIGGRAPH, Graphics Hardware, and NVIDIA-U last week. We appreciate all suggestions, contributions, and news items. Thanks!
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