Nvidia has claimed that its graphics chips are not just for gaming and watching movies. The company said at a press event in San Francisco that users are harnessing the power of its GPUs in other ways. David Kirk, chief scientist at Nvidia, explained how scientists have been taking up a practice called ‘general purpose computing on GPUs’ to perform huge computing tasks.
Nvidia Talks Up GPU ‘Supercomputers’
February 26, 2008