  Modern graphics processors provide exceptional computa- tional power, but
only for certain computational models. While they have revolutionized
computation in many fields, compression has been largely unnaffected. This
paper aims to explain the current issues and possibili- ties in GPGPU
compression. This is done by a high level overview of the GPGPU computational
model in the context of compression algorithms; along with a more in-depth
analysis of how one would implement bzip2 on a GPGPU architecture.
