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

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The term GPGPU is a reference to the '''historically''' contemporaneous '''state of the computer industry,''' when it was yet '''still too expensive for the development of custom and relatively low volume hardware accelerators''' for use in computational workloads other than graphics. At that point, what accelerators did exist were overwhelmingly based on PowerPC architecture and deployed in nearly or completely custom 1 off "Mainframe" style supercomputer or HPC systems. GPUs were growing increasingly important, not only in consumer client gaming and multimedia systems, but also in the content creation and professional applications of certain types (NOTE: Prior to then, All-CPU video editing and rendering, audio mastering and mixing, graphic arts, and other familiar GPU usage cases were the standard). Eventually GPUs became powerful and capable enough to become attractive as economical accelerator offloads for general usage in fixed-footprint racks or as upgrades in server or workstation environments. But critically '''this paradigm shift was entirely an economical/cost based shift''' that took '''the actual price of the hardware''' into consideration. In fact, the '''GPGPU paradigm shift arguably included "Professional" and "Consumer" product stack pricing differentiation''' of the GPUs themselves, [[Special:Contributions/2600:387:15:1C13:0:0:0:A|2600:387:15:1C13:0:0:0:A]] ([[User talk:2600:387:15:1C13:0:0:0:A|talk]]) 00:57, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

:also I know of a company around 2012 which created a VLIW GPGPU product, I wish I could remember it's name (strokes damaged my memory). it was a Chinese HK company, one of the founders of SGI named Simon was also a VLIW compiler expert, they got a 400 mhz early demo/prototype processor to do 1600 mhz of computation because it was VLIW (!) targeted at video and graphics it was definitely a CPU which happened to be a***-hot at video. [[User:Lkcl|Lkcl]] ([[User talk:Lkcl|talk]]) 11:57, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

== Vectorization section no sources, overstating ==