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Programmable shader

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Refers to the programmable Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). With recent advances in the programmability of the GPU it has become possible to program your own shader in a high level language on the GPU.

Nvidia has developed a tool, FX composer to make the programming of shaders more easy. [1]