GPU Co-processing Techniques in Databases: GPU Techniques

GPU stands for ‘Graphical processing unit’ invention of GPU is a revolution in PC industry. Purpose of GPU, is to optimize highly data-parallel for nature of graphics computation & specialized microprocessor offloads and accelerates graphics render from central processor. GPU is a processor specialized for processing graphics. GPU can be defined as, it is a single chip processor used for processing 2 and 3 dimensional transformation operations in context of computer graphics.