Dally could accelerate Nvidia’s development of GPU technology. For the first fifty years of computing history, the most important chip inside the computer was the central processing unit, or CPU. The CPU is a generalist, capable of performing a wide variety of tasks. It moves from task to task with great speed and can dedicate significant processing power to each operation. Nevertheless, it can handle only a few operations simultaneously because of its limited number of cores, which process only a few computation threads at once. The GPU, in contrast, is optimized for volume over complexity.
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