Introduction to GPGPU and CUDA

GPGPU stands for General Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units, i.e. generic computing on a graphics processor. The purpose of such calculations is to take advantage of the parallel processing capability of graphics processors.

CUDA (acronym for Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a GPGPU technology, which uses a graphics processing unit (GPU) to perform general purpose computing in place of the processor (CPU). It is developed by NVIDIA.