From Multicores and GPUs to Petascale.
Standard components are increasingly combined with GPUs Graphics Processing Unit, originally designed for high-speed graphics processing, and FPGAs Free Programmable Gate Array to build PARALLEL computers with a wide spectrum of high-speed processing funct.
PARALLEL COMPUTING technologies have brought dramatic changes to mainstream COMPUTING the majority of todays PCs, laptops and even notebooks incorporate multiprocessor chips with up to four processors.
From Multicores and GPUs to Petascale