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Graphics processing units (GPUs) have recently evolved from mere video cards to
fully-fledged computing devices, no longer connected to visual peripherals.
Leveraging the technological progress initiated by ever faster and richer visuals
rendering, general-purpose GPUs contain hundreds of processors capable of crunching
numbers concurrently. The GPU architectures offers recognized opportunities for
scientific computing, but also pose constraints on how parallelism can be
implemented efficiently. In other words, it is important to be aware of a continuum
of situations linking hardware features, software coding requirements, and
achievable improvements in computing performance. This non-technical talk will
offer a little orienting knowledge on where the potency of GPUs lies, and present
some notions useful to find your way in a rapidly evolving technological niche. It
will hopefully help develop a sound intuition of what the so-called �hardware
acceleration' with GPUs is and invite reasoned interest in it.