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In one of the top 10 results, Wu and Liu say in 2004 that: > To our surprise, except from those applications in > graphics itself, GPU finds its applications
by einpoklum 6y ago
In one of the top 10 results, Wu and Liu say in 2004 that:
> To our surprise, except from those applications in
> graphics itself, GPU finds its applications in general
> purpose computations in other fields, and it comes up as a
> hot topic for research in recent 2 - 3 years.
I don't see how this was very surprising even in 2004. A GPU accelerates regularly-parallel computation where bandwidth is more important than latency.
On the other hand, you had to think in terms of "shaders", which is not very intuitive, and tooling was barely existent, so maybe it was a bit surprising.