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Okay, I'm a little confused. What exactly is a Co-Prossessor? It looks like a graphics card. Will it replace the graphics cards or work alongside it? Does it only handle highly parallel tasks, with the processor handling serials tasks?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprocessor

Yes, the idea is that you will offload highly parallel tasks to it while the main CPU handles serial tasks.


While we're adding relevant Wikipedia links,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterogeneous_computing




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