This article by Michael Macedonia in IEEE Computer magazine discusses current trends in general-purpose computation on GPUs. Excerpt: “The Siggraph/Eurographics Graphics Hardware 2003 workshop, held in San Diego, will likely be remembered as a turning point in modern computing. In one of those rare moments when a new paradigm visibly begins changing general-purpose computing’s course, what has traditionally been a graphics-centric workshop shifted its attention to the nongraphics applications of the graphics processing unit.” (The GPU Enters Computing’s Mainstream. Michael Macedonia, Georgia Tech Research Institute.)

This article at ExtremeTech.com describes David Kirk’s vision of the future of 3D computer graphics and graphics hardware. The article links to the GPGPU website, and is based on a presentation by David Kirk that describes some recent GPGPU research. Because of this, GPGPU was mentioned in a Slashdot post and comments. The combination of links resulted in over 12,000 site visits in under 4 days (that’s over 25% of all visits to this page, ever.)