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What is General-Purpose Computation on GPUs (GPGPU)

Chapter 129
Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence
Trend in computing devices dedicated to implement general-purpose algorithms using graphics devices, called GPUs. At the moment, the high programmability and performance of GPUs allow developers run classical algorithms in these devices to speed non-graphics applications up, especially those algorithms with parallel nature
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IA Algorithm Acceleration Using GPUs
Antonio Seoane (University of A Coruña, Spain) and Alberto Jaspe (University of A Coruña, Spain)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-849-9.ch129
Abstract
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have been evolving very fast, turning into high performance programmable processors. Though GPUs have been designed to compute graphics algorithms, their power and flexibility makes them a very attractive platform for generalpurpose computing. In the last years they have been used to accelerate calculations in physics, computer vision, artificial intelligence, database operations, etc. (Owens, 2007). In this paper an approach to general purpose computing with GPUs is made, followed by a description of artificial intelligence algorithms based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Evolutionary Computation (EC) accelerated using GPU.
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