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  • “A Toolkit for Computation on GPUs”. Ian Buck and Tim Purcell. In GPU Gems. Randy Fernando, ed. 2004
  • 2003-04-11 Mark Harris page cs.unc.edu/~harrism/gpgpu
  • 2015-05-02 Mark Harris - "A Brief History of General-Purpose Computation on GPUs"
    • at 3:43 a slide titled "The first GPGPU: IKONAS RDS-3000" shows
      • an ad saying "The GRAPHICS SYSTEM for the 80's"
      • 1978 Nick Englund & Mary Whitton founded Ikonas Graphics System
      • 1985 Video "All computation is taking place in the Adage 3000 Display"
      • (SIGGRAPH '86) Time Van Hook wrote microcode for solid modeling, ray tracing
    • UNC Pixel Planes and PixelFlow
      • Procedural textures on Pixel Planes 5 (Rhodes et al. 1992)
      • PixelFlow - 100,000+ 100 MHz 8-bit processors
      • PixelFlow - Early real-time programmable shading (Olano/Lastra '98)
      • PixelFlow - used for unix password cracking (Kedem et al. '98)
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