A SIMD tabu search, (which relates to the optimization problem which can be solved 10,000 times faster on an adiabatic quantum computer) was accelerated by 20 to 45 times over a general purpose CPU.
What applications are best suited to GPU and FPGA acceleration
FPGAs were able to accelerate MPEG decoding by twenty times over general purpose CPUs.
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