Lindholm and colleagues: NVIDIA Tesla unified graphics and computing architecture

What changed

Described the Tesla unified graphics and computing architecture and its massively multithreaded processor design for graphics and general-purpose parallel workloads.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact 2008 IEEE Micro article. Earlier GPU generations, CUDA software releases, later NVIDIA architectures and independent accelerator designs remain separate.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact 2008 IEEE Micro article. Earlier GPU generations, CUDA software releases, later NVIDIA architectures and independent accelerator designs remain separate.

Contributors

• Erik Lindholm · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• John Nickolls · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Stuart Oberman · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• John Montrym · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• NVIDIA Research record for Tesla architecture
• Crossref record for NVIDIA Tesla architecture

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