Kurt Shintaku's Blog

‘Ever heard of “GPU Compute”?

Microsoft is doing a ton of work in this space.  GPU Compute where we leverage High Performance Computing (HPC) models to schedule jobs to a GPU and gains some pretty significant efficiencies.  

“In this co-processing model, the compute intensive portions of an application use the parallel computing capabilities of the GPU, while the sequential part of an application’s code runs on the CPU.”

This has huge ramifications for particular industries:

For more information:

• DOWNLOAD:  GPGPU Computing Horizons:  Developing and Deploying for Microsoft
  http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/6/C/A6C0223B-9460-4346-8DC0-B6BCFD9269B4/MSFT_GPGPU_whitepaper_FINAL.PDF
• MORE INFO:
  http://www.microsoft.com/hpc/en/us/solutions/gpgpu-acceleration.aspx