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 # NVIDIA Tesla: A Unified Graphics and Computing Architecture

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 To enable flexible, programmable graphics and high-performance computing, NVIDIA has developed the Tesla scalable unified graphics and parallel computing architecture. Its scalable parallel array of processors is massively multithreaded and programmable in C or via graphics APIs.



 ## Authors



Erik Lindholm (NVIDIA)

John Nickolls (NVIDIA)

Stuart Oberman (NVIDIA)

John Montrym (NVIDIA)

 

 

 ## Publication Date



Tuesday, April 1, 2008

 

 ## Published in



[IEEE Micro](http://www.computer.org/portal/web/micro/home)

 

 ## Research Area



[Computer Graphics](/research-area/computer-graphics)

 

 

 ## External Links



[NVIDIA Tesla: A Unified Graphics and Computing Architecture](http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MM.2008.31)