Parallel processing is a technology most commonly associated with supercomputers, and the graphics processing units found in PCs and gaming consoles.
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Nvidia designs and develops graphics processing units (GPUs), which are high performance processors that generate realistic and interactive graphics on computers.
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The Sony -ibm- Toshiba Cell chip has nine miniature processing units.
Chips based on this architecture AMD calls Accelerated Processing Units or APUs from the old idea that graphics processors are hardware accelerators for rendering visual data.
Nvidia ( NVDA - news - people ), the Santa Clara, Calif. company that is the world's largest maker of graphics-processing units, or GPUs.
In October the Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced an effort to build the world's fastest supercomputer, which will use AMD Opteron chips and 18, 000 of Nvidia's graphics-processing units.
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The combination of central processing units, the traditional foundation of high- performance computers, and more recent GPUs will allow Titan to occupy the same space as its Jaguar predecessor while using only marginally more electricity.
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The idea is to couple the central processing units (CPUs) cranked out by Intel and AMD, which can move nimbly from one kind of task to another, with the GPUs put out by AMD and Nvidia, which are good at grinding through vast numbers of tasks at the same time.
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The GPU contains a unified array of 18 compute units, which collectively generate 1.84 Teraflops of processing power that can freely be applied to graphics, simulation tasks, or some mixture of the two.
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