The buzz has been loud at times. Almost sounds to good to be true. Use your video card for HPC and get a 10, or maybe even 50 times, speed up of your application. Those kind of comments get my attention. Initially there were some skeptics, but the results keep coming. And, the results were not from some academic lab with some esoteric application.
Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) contain hundreds of arithmetic units and can be harnessed to provide tremendous acceleration for many numerically intensive scientific applications. The key to effective utilization of GPUs for scientific computing