The Origins of GPU Computing

Government-funded academic research on parallel computing, stream processing, real-time shading languages, and programmable graphics processing units (GPUs) directly led to the development of GPU computing.

Authors

Pat Hanrahan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3474-9752)
William J. Dally (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4632-2876)

Institutions

Stanford University (US)

Publication Details

Journal: Communications of the ACM
Published: 2026-04-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3778248
Primary Topic: History of Computing Technologies
Type: article
Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 0.00

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article

The Origins of GPU Computing

Pat Hanrahan, William J. Dally

Apr 13, 2026

Communications of the ACM

History of Computing Technologies

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The Origins of GPU Computing

Pat Hanrahan, William J. Dally

April 13, 2026article en

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Communications of the ACM

Stanford University (US)

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History of Computing Technologies

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