Vulkan

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Invention

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Vulkan is a cross-platform API and open standard for 3D graphics and parallelized computing. It was intended to address the shortcomings of OpenGL, and allow developers more control over the GPU. It is designed to support a wide variety of GPUs, CPUs and operating systems, and modern multi-core CPUs also.

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Image: Software: KDE, Khronos Group, and LunarG Screenshot: VulcanSphere, Apache License 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.