Processing power is moving from the CPU to the GPU. AMD has fired the first shots around a massively parallel computing architecture in the form of the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series GPGPU featuring a mind-blowing 800 cores (or shader units). A GPGPU, or General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit, blurs the distinction between CPU and GPU and promises to usher in an entirely new paradigm for programmers to learn.
A Massively Parallel Future
July 3, 2008