The success of the gaming industry is now pushing processor technology like we have never seen before. Since recent graphics processors (GPU's) have been improving both their programmability as well as have been adding more and more floating point processing, it makes them very appealing as accelerators for general-purpose computing. This minisymposium gives an overview of some of these advancements by bringing together experts working on the development of techniques and tools that improve the programmability of GPU's as well as the experts interested in utilizing the computational power of GPU' scientific applications. This first EuroGPU Minisymposium brought together severl experts working on the development of techniques and tools that improve the programmability of GPU's as well as the experts interested in utilizing the computational power of GPU's for scientific applications. This short summary thus gives a very useful, but quick overview of some of the major recent advancement in modern GPU computing.