Friday, December 12, 2014

GPUs (video cards)

On December 11th Michael Grube from MCIT came and talked about how all those kids playing video games are helping shape the future of computing.

The video card in your computer likely has a 100 times more cores than your CPU. Michael talked about the challenges and advantages of tapping into all those parallel processors. He also covered the interesting discovers which might be made by having an order of more computational power.

The Mythbusters, as always, have some interesting examples of how CPUs and GPUs are different.



Click here to download his presentation and example code.