CUDA: The Democratization of Parallel Computing

The slides shown below are from the SIGGRAPH 2008 presentation by Paulius Micikevicius of NVIDIA.

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• Interactive Ray Tracing in CUDA from SIGGRAPH and NVISION08.
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• Multi-GPU DCS Performance by Jame Phillips, John Stone, & Klaus Schulten
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