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{ \Large \bf The Department of Computer Science and Engineering\\ 
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University of Nevada, Reno}

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{ cordially invites you to a Master's colloquium}

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       {\Large \bf Evolution of the Graphical Processing Unit}
	
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        A professional paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the\\
        requirements for the degree of Master of Science\\
        with a major in Computer Science.

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        by

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	{\bf Thomas Scott Crow}
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        {\bf Abstract:} 
	In this paper we discuss some major contributions to the field
	of computer graphics that have led to the implementation of the
	modern graphical processing unit. We also compare the
	performance of matrix-matrix multiplication on the GPU to the
	same computation on the CPU.  Although the CPU performs better
	in this comparison, modern GPUs have a lot of potential since
	their rate of growth far exceeds that of the CPU.   The history
	of the rate of growth  of the GPU shows that the transistor
	count doubles every 6 months where that of the CPU is only
	every 18 months.  There is currently much research going on
	regarding general purpose  computing on GPUs and although
	there  has been  moderate success,  there are  several  issues
	that  keep  the commodity GPU from expanding out from pure
	graphics computing with limited cache bandwidth being one.


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{\Large \bf 4:00 pm, Thursday, February $3^{rd}$, 2005}
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{Access Grid Node, Scrugham Engineering and Mines (SEM) room 201}

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for more information contact 
Dr. Fred Harris @ 784-6571 (fredh@cs.unr.edu)
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