NVIDIA GPU Gems 3 Call for Participation

H. writes "Following the success of GPU Gems and GPU Gems 2, NVIDIA has decided to produce a third GPU Gems volume to showcase the best new ideas and techniques for the latest programmable GPUs. If you would like to contribute to the GPU Gems series, please read the submission guidelines. The deadline for proposal submissions is Monday, December 11, 2006. If your proposal is accepted, you will receive additional time to complete the chapter." (Here are the participation guidelines.)

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[theelectron]

GPU is the buzzword for graphics card processors.

Yeah, just like CPU is some asinine buzzword for the processor in a computer. (BTW, GPU is a abbreviation meaning Graphics Processing Unit and is a standard term outside of the gaming circle and makes perfect sense)

Gems is the antiquated term used in the old "graphics gems" series of books

True enough.

which in and of itself is assinine

Not really, gems in this sense is used to mean something small that is of value. It's a common term, like: She's a gem of a daughter. Since the book if full of example programs for the shader unit in a GPU, GPU Gems is a good title, and not a worse title than most new books now-a-days anyway.

And in case anyone is wondering, the shader unit is a mathematical unit in GPUs that are usually used to 'shade' a scene, meaning to translate a 3d model into a meaningful 2d representation. Shader units can also be used for other tasks, such as physics, because of their ability to do floating point calculations en masse quickly.\ I hope that helps clear things up.