Accelerator (computing)

Accelerator (computing)

In computing, the term accelerator has multiple meanings:

* Hardware accelerator, an additional unit of hardware to perform some function faster than is possible in software running on the normal CPU.
* Another term for Keyboard shortcuts
* Microsoft Research Accelerator Project, an extension to the .NET framework to increase program performance using concepts from GPGPU and stream processing.
* Web accelerator, a program that reduces web site access times.


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