How GPU came to be used for general computation

[Eóin]

A very cool and interesting article from MS blogger Igor Ostrovsky.

The story of how GPU came to be used for high-performance computation is pretty cool. Hardware heavily optimized for graphics turned out to be useful for another use: certain types of high-performance computations. In this article, I will explore how and why this happened, and summarize the state of general computation on GPUs today.

-http://igoro.com/archive/how-gpu-came-to-be-used-for-general-computation/

[f0dder]

I bumped upon Igor's blog a few weeks ago, he has a couple of pretty OK things there - time to read the article.

[Deozaan]

Interesting, but a bit beyond my level of education.

I liked the pretty video though.