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Carrier Landing Modeling System Leverages GPGPU Advantages

Well suited for data-intensive, parallel processing, GPGPUs are powerful tools. The technology hasbeen applied to modeling aircraft carrier landing scenarios.by Mark Lovett, Chief Marketing Officer

Trenton Technology

Since Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor and Motorolareleased their 68000 over 30 years ago, CPUs have been atthe forefront of discussions related to computing power. Userseagerly anticipated each successive iteration that brought withit faster processing speeds and enhanced functionality. Butalongside this CPU juggernaut, coprocessors, also known ashardware accelerators, have played a critical role in advancing theability of computers to deal with increasing volumes of data byoffloading the CPU.

In the early days of personal computing Intel’s 8087 andMotorola’s 68881 math coprocessors were popular with anyoneinvolved in scientific research and analysis, and the subsequentdevelopment of graphics coprocessor technology was equallyadopted by users of CAD software and gaming machines. Morerecently, hardware acceleration solutions that utilize GraphicsProcessing Units (GPUs) working in tandem with CentralProcessing Units (CPUs) have fostered the GPGPU (Generalpurposecomputing on graphics processing units) computingparadigm, and this hybrid architecture has proven itself to be anideal platform for data-intensive military applications. Table 1 liststhe kinds of military applications suited for GPGPU technology

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 Carrier Landing Modeling System Leverages GPGPU Advantages