GPU

http://www.nvidia.com/object/GPU_Computing.html

GPU computing is the use of a GPU (graphics processing unit) to do general purpose scientific and engineering computing. The model for GPU computing is to use a CPU and GPU together in a heterogeneous computing model. The sequential part of the application runs on the CPU and the computationally-intensive part runs on the GPU. From the user’s perspective, the application just runs faster because it is using the high-performance of the GPU to boost performance.

GPU計算是使用一種GPU（圖形處理單元）做一般用途的科學和工程計算。該模型用於GPU計算是使用CPU和GPU共同在一個異構的計算模型。在連續的一部分應用程序運行在CPU和計算密集的一部分，在GPU上運行。從用戶的角度來看，應用程序只運行更快，因為它使用的是高性能的GPU來提高性能。