*Source: DailyTech (
http://www.dailytech.com/ATI+Launche...icle9609.htm)*
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AMD and NVIDIA both are looking to expand the GPU into uses other than gaming. When ATI announced Folding@home would run on its GPUs end-users began to see the potential in GPUs for things other than video games.
NVIDIA first announced its Tesla line of general purpose graphics processing units or GPGPU in June of 2007 with the launch of the Tesla C870, S870 and D870 products. At the core, most of the products were NVIDIA 8-series graphics cards minus the DVI outputs for sending graphics to the display of the PC.
The Tesla C870 is a high-end, quad-GPU external system. These Tesla products are used for purposes like medical imaging and render farming because GPUs are more efficient with parallel processing requirements.
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