(C) 2012 D. S. DURFEESQCOMIC.COM THEY KEEP PUTTING MORE CORES INTO CPUS. BUT, AS THIS PLOT SHOWS, YOU CAN ALREADY GET A GRAPHICS PROCESSOR, OR GPU, WITH HUNDREDS OF CORES! A FEW YEARS AGO SOMEONE REALIZED THAT GPUS CAN BE REPURPOSED TO DO MASSIVELY PARALLEL SCIENCE CALCULATIONS. THAT'S AMAZING, ADAM. I WONDER IF YOU COULD SIMILARLY REPURPOSE THE VISUAL CENTERS OF YOUR BRAIN TO UNDERSTAND ABSTRACT CONCEPTS. THAT'S AN INTERESTING IDEA, JAKE, SINCE 30% OF YOUR BRAIN PROCESSES VISION, AS THIS PIE CHART SHOWS. BUT THIS TIMELINE SHOWS THAT BRAIN PLASTICITY RESEARCH IS IN ITS INFANCY. SO DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH! ANYWAY, WITH THIS FLOW CHART YOU CAN EASILY SEE HOW MY GPU CODE WORKS. I MAKE 3D VISUALS OF MY DATA TO HELP ME MAKE SENSE OF THE RESULTS. SO AS YOU CAN QUICKLY SEE FROM MY VISUALS . . . SEE . . . VISUALS . . . HMMM? JAKE, IT SEEMS THAT GPU COMPUTING IS OLDER THAN I THOUGHT! keywords: Adam Slawth Jake Wilson CPU GPU Graphics Cores Computing Numerical Calculations Parallel Processing Graphics Pie Charts Plots Timelines Flow Charts Visualization Brain Plasticity