Computing · 2007
CUDA
GPUs become general-purpose parallel computers.
Nvidia's CUDA platform let programmers write C code for GPUs. It made GPUs the workhorses of scientific computing and later of deep learning.
What it built on 2
What it led to 3
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The dashed line marks when it first worked.
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