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 ===== General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) ===== ===== General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) =====
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-**General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU)** is a graphics processing unit (GPU) that performs non-specialized calculations that would typically be conducted by the [[dido:​public:​ra:​xapend:​xapend.a_glossary:​c:​cpu]] (central processing unit). Ordinarily, the [[dido:​public:​ra:​xapend:​xapend.a_glossary:​g:​gpu]] is dedicated to graphics rendering.+**General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU)** is a [[dido:​public:​ra:​xapend:​xapend.a_glossary:​g:​gpu]] ​that performs non-specialized calculations that would typically be conducted by the [[dido:​public:​ra:​xapend:​xapend.a_glossary:​c:​cpu]] (central processing unit). Ordinarily, the [[dido:​public:​ra:​xapend:​xapend.a_glossary:​g:​gpu]] is dedicated to graphics rendering.
  
-GPGPUs are used for tasks that were formerly the domain of high-power CPUs, such as physics calculations,​ encryption/​decryption,​ scientific computations and the generation of cypto currencies such as Bitcoin.((+GPGPUs are used for tasks that were formerly the domain of high-power CPUs, such as physics calculations, ​[[dido:​public:​ra:​xapend:​xapend.a_glossary:​e:​encryption|encryption]]/[[dido:​public:​ra:​xapend:​xapend.a_glossary:​d:​decryption|decryption]], scientific computations and the generation of cypto currencies such as [[dido:​public:​ra:​xapend:​xapend.a_glossary:​b:​bitcoin|Bitcoin]].((
 Rouse, Margret; __Definition of GPGPU__, WhatIs.com, Accessed 8 December 2020, Rouse, Margret; __Definition of GPGPU__, WhatIs.com, Accessed 8 December 2020,
 [[https://​whatis.techtarget.com/​definition/​GPGPU-general-purpose-graphics-processing-unit]] [[https://​whatis.techtarget.com/​definition/​GPGPU-general-purpose-graphics-processing-unit]]
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