hardware acceleration
Use of specialized computer hardware to perform some functions more efficiently than is possible in software running on a more general-purpose CPU
Also known as hardware accelerator · acceleration
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10 statements · 30% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- ACM Classification Code (2012)
- 10010629
- Uses
- specialization
- coprocessor nature of statement: often
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5 identifiers linking hardware acceleration across the web's reference databases