Neelima, B.Raghavendra, P.S.2020-03-302020-03-3020102010 5th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, ICIIS 2010, 2010, Vol., , pp.319-324https://idr.nitk.ac.in/handle/123456789/8914With the growth of Graphics Processor (GPU) programmability and processing power, graphics hardware has become a compelling platform for computationally demanding tasks in a wide variety of application domains. This state of art paper gives the technical motivations that underlie GPU computing and describe the hardware and software developments that have led to the recent interest in this field. �2010 IEEE.Book chapter