Engineering On The Edge

Multicore processors have provided a significant boost for graphics processing, but researchers at North Carolina State University are taking things a step further by boosting multicore CPU performance by an average of more than 20%.

Called CPU-assisted general purpose computation on graphics processor units (CPU-assisted GPGPU), the technology under development at NCSU allows both units to collaborate on a computing task. This approach is designed for fused architecture chipsets with a shared level-3 cache and shared off-chip memory for CPUs and GPUs. Continue reading →