New Software Could Smooth Supercomputing Speed Bumps
Friday, October 16, 2009 - 07:07
in Mathematics & Economics
Supercomputers have long been an indispensable, albeit expensive, tool for researchers who need to make sense of vast amounts of data. One way that researchers have begun to make high-speed computing more powerful and also more affordable is to build systems that split up workloads among fast, highly parallel graphics processing units (GPUs) and general-purpose central processing units (CPUs). [More]
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