A Decade of Accelerated Computing Augurs Well For GPUs

While accelerators have been around for some time to boost the performance of simulation and modeling applications, accelerated computing didn't gain traction for most people until the commercialization of the Tesla line of GPUs for general computing by Nvidia. This year marked the tenth annual Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC). I have been to all but one starting with the inaugural event in 2009. Back then it was a much smaller group. Attendance has leaped 10X with this year's meeting attracting over 9,000 participants.