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Adreno

Mali series media co-processors formerly Falanx, now become ARM Norway

AMAX Information Technologies

In 2008, AMAX introduced a line of high performance computing products based on the Nvidia Tesla Personal Supercomputer, with GPU technology.

AMD Accelerated Processing Unit

Both APUs feature one or two Bobcat x86 cores and a Radeon Evergreen Series GPU with full DirectX11, DirectCompute and OpenCL support including UVD3 video acceleration for HD video including 1080p.

The platform features 2 to 4 Piledriver CPU cores built on a 32 nm process with a TDP between 65 W and 100 W, and a GPU based on the Radeon HD7000 Series with support for DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.2, and OpenCL 1.2.

AMD mobile platform

Both low-power APU versions feature two Bobcat x86 cores and fully support DirectX11, DirectCompute (Microsoft programming interface for GPU computing) and OpenCL (cross-platform programming interface standard for multi-core x86 and accelerated GPU computing).

ATi Radeon R200 series

This GPU features 3D acceleration based upon Microsoft Direct3D 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3, a major improvement in features and performance compared to the preceding Radeon R100 design.

CUDA Pinned memory

In the framework of accelerating computational codes by Parallel Computing on Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), the data to be processed must be transferred from the Central Processing Unit (CPU) to the GPU and the results of the processing from the GPU to the CPU.

Frantsishak Alyakhnovich

Alyakhnovich's Gulag experience became a basis for his 1934 book of memoirs У капцюрох ГПУ (U kaptsyurokh HPU, In the claws of the GPU), that was later translated into several languages.

Gallium3D

Under Gallium3D, Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel drivers will manage the memory and Direct Rendering Interface (DRI2) drivers will be more GPU processing oriented.

Genrikh Yagoda

The troika Grigory Zinoviev-Lev Kamenev-Joseph Stalin wanted a symbolic direction represented by Felix Dzerzhinsky and Vyacheslav Menzhinsky and an effective direction represented by Yagoda who was neither a people's commissar nor a central committee member to ensure that the GPU remained loyal to the party.

Intel QuickPath Interconnect

However, QPI is used internally on these chips to communicate with the "uncore", which is part of the chip containing memory controllers, CPU-side PCI Express and GPU, if present; the uncore may or may not be on the same die as the CPU core, for instance it is on a separate die in the Westmere-based Clarkdale/Arrandale.

Martemyan Ryutin

A three person Collegium of the OGPU — consisting of GPU chairman Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, his successor Genrikh Yagoda, and future People's Commissar of Internal Affairs V. A. Balitsky — formally decided the charges against Ryutin.

Nvision

Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, of MythBusters fame, demonstrated how GPUs solve specific tasks faster in parallel than they can be executed on general purpose CPUs by painting a Mona Lisa with a massively parallel paint gun.

OpenACC

The standard is designed to simplify parallel programming of heterogeneous CPU/GPU systems.

Pavlik Morozov

In 1932, at the age of 13, Morozov reported his father to the political police (GPU).

RemoteFX

The RemoteFX Codec does not require any special hardware, and uses the CPU for encoding, with optional hardware-acceleration by either a GPU or ASIC.

The Portland Group

PGI has more recently participated in the specification of the new standard OpenACC directives for GPU computing, and has released a compiler for the OpenCL language on multi-core ARM processors.


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