gpukernel
nounUK /ˌdʒiː piː ˈjuː ˈkɜːnl/
US /ˌdʒiː piː ˈjuː ˈkɝːnl/
A small program that runs on a computer's graphics chip to do many math jobs at once.
The game uses a GPU kernel to draw thousands of tiny stars on the screen.
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2. A function launched by the CPU to run across many threads on a graphics processing unit.
The programmer wrote a GPU kernel to add two large arrays together.
3. The core part of a graphics driver that handles low-level chip operations.
The update fixed a bug in the GPU kernel that caused screen flicker.
4. A small piece of code that processes pixels or vertices in a rendering pipeline.
Each GPU kernel shades one pixel before the image is shown.