It's not exactly new but things like CUDA allows you to run a program directly on a graphics card. You might think why that matters but then think, what do graphics cards do best?
Well, the short version is that they do complex math fast and in parallel where a CPU is not as good at that. It means that math intensive problems in this context are far faster to run on a GPU than a CPU.
That is pretty interesting, I did not know about that. It's funny, back in the day I was really into the whole computer scene. MCSE, Novell Netware certified, the whole 9. Now I don't know jack about shit. I got out of that whole scene after the dot com crash and never went back into it.
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