Performance Accelerators
Liang Wang, Jianxin Zhao · Apress eBooks · 2022
Abstract The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has become one of the most important types of hardware accelerators. It is designed to render 3D graphics and videos and still is core to the gaming industry. Besides creating stunning visual effects, programmers also take advantage of the GPU’s advantage in parallel processing in many fields to perform computing-heavy tasks, such as in health data analytics, physical simulation, artificial intelligence, etc.