question about the history of GPU computing

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Programming and Performance
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Which was the first algorithm not related to graphics directly to be considered an example of GPGPU?

The answer don’t need to be CUDA-related. I want to know the origins of the GPGPU.
Forgive me maybe if I am in wrong topic, but I don’t know a better place to ask this in this forum.

thanks, beforehand
Edward

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I think the consensus is that this paper (pdf download available here) is probably the first recognizable GPGPU publication:

@inproceedings{97915,

 author = {Lengyel, Jed and Reichert, Mark and Donald, Bruce R. and Greenberg, Donald P.},

 title = {Real-time robot motion planning using rasterizing computer graphics hardware},

 booktitle = {SIGGRAPH '90: Proceedings of the 17th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques},

 year = {1990},

 isbn = {0-89791-344-2},

 pages = {327--335},

 location = {Dallas, TX, USA},

 doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/97879.97915},

 publisher = {ACM},

 address = {New York, NY, USA},

 }

The algorithm they used is essentially a type of parallel Voronoi tesselation for 2D robot motion planning.

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I think the consensus is that this paper (pdf download available here) is probably the first recognizable GPGPU publication:

@inproceedings{97915,

 author = {Lengyel, Jed and Reichert, Mark and Donald, Bruce R. and Greenberg, Donald P.},

 title = {Real-time robot motion planning using rasterizing computer graphics hardware},

 booktitle = {SIGGRAPH '90: Proceedings of the 17th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques},

 year = {1990},

 isbn = {0-89791-344-2},

 pages = {327--335},

 location = {Dallas, TX, USA},

 doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/97879.97915},

 publisher = {ACM},

 address = {New York, NY, USA},

 }

The algorithm they used is essentially a type of parallel Voronoi tesselation for 2D robot motion planning.