Introduced for the 1970 model year on a brand-new platform, the third-generation Plymouth Barracuda was pretty popular, ...

The word supercomputer gets thrown around quite a bit. The original Cray-1, for example, operated at about 150 MIPS and had about eight megabytes of memory. A modern Intel i7 CPU can hit almost ...

Graphics processing units (GPUs) were originally designed to perform the highly parallel computations required for graphics rendering. But over the last couple of years, they’ve proven to be powerful ...

CUDA is a computing architecture designed to facilitate the development of parallel programs. This book shows programmers how to employ this new technology to draw on the immense power of graphics ...