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GPU	Gas Particulate Unit (used in chemical warfare agent filters)
GPU	Gossudarstwennoje Prawowoje Uprawlenije (Russian: National Legal Administration)
GPU	Groupe Permanent Chargé des Installations Nucléaires de Base (French: Standing Group of Base Nuclear Installations)

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The same situation stands true for the graphics processing unit as some memory processes are insubstantial when compared to the necessary minimum resources that can be allocated to handle them, thus resulting in a reduced peak memory efficiency.

Managing Graphics Processing Units' memory and its associated transfers in order to increase the software performance

First general purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) applications were developed in 2006 when the new generation of graphics cores with fully programmable shader processors (shader model 3.0) which can work with numbers in floating point format were introduced.

Utilization of graphics processing unit in sound source localization based on digital beamforming

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) awakened the world to the power of computer graphics when it invented the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999.

NVIDIA LAUNCHES QUARDO DIGITAL VIDEO PIPELINE

About NVIDIANVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) awakened the world to the power of computer graphics when it invented the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999.

NVIDIA Delivers Comprehensive OpenCL Support under Snow Leopard

<p>Nvidia has been able to use DirectX compute capabilities in Windows 7 to accelerate tasks like manipulating images or playing DVDs via its graphics processing unit, said Ned Finkle, vice president of strategic marketing at Nvidia, in a video posted on Microsoft's Windows 7 Web site.

Microsoft boosts Windows 7 graphics with hardware

Adobe Reader 8 also features graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration to boost performance when viewing graphics-intense PDF files, such as 3D content.

Adobe Reader 8

"Microsoft Windows Vista is the first Windows operating system that fully exploits the power of a graphics processing unit," stated Ned Finkle, vice president of strategic marketing at NVIDIA.

NVIDIA DEMONSTRATES MICROSOFT VISTA-READY PRODUCTS AT WINHEC

Toshiba's Portege M200 is powered by the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5200 graphics processing unit (GPU) with 32MB of dedicated DDR memory and Microsoft DirectX 9.0 support.

Toshiba intros next gen tablet PC

The deal appears to have been lost to Nvidia Corp, which announced OEM deals from Dell, along with Gateway Inc, Compaq Computer Corp, Micron Electronics, Inc and NEC Direct for its new GeForce 256 "graphics processing unit" (see separate story).

ATI Loses Dell Optiplex Deal: Says Outlook is Still Strong

The Cortex-A55 has the highest power efficiency in the mid-range CPU class, while the Mali-G72 graphics processing unit (GPU) is said to have a 25 percent improvement over the preceding G71, reports The Verge.

New ARM processor will enable machine learning in smartphones

In order to harness the full computational potential of a graphics processing unit, the developers must apply optimization techniques other than those used for central processing units.

Implementation solutions for deep learning neural networks targeting various application fields