General-purpose computing on graphics processing units: Difference between revisions

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Now, combine these programs with higher precision arithmetic and the fact that graphics processors computational power has been increasing at an incredibly high rate, and it is easy to see why GPUs are being looked as a powerful processing unit in areas outside their original intended scope of graphics and visualization.

The following are some of the non-graphics areas where GPUs have been used for genralgeneral purpose computing:

*Cryptography

*[[Database]] operations