February 2012
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Accelerating Air Traffic Control with Nvidia GPUs
There is no question that GPUs have taken the HPC industry by storm over the past several years, speeding up all sorts of highly parallel scientific workloads by huge amounts. I thought this use of GPUs was particularly cool. Every day some 30,000-plus aircraft take flight over the US alone, each with an extremely detailed flight plan that keeps the flight safe, minimizes fuel consumption, and...