In the last decade, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have gained an increasing popularity as accelerators for High Performance Computing (HPC) applications. Recent GPUs are not only powerful graphics engines but also highly threaded parallel computing processors that can achieve sustainable …
June 10, 2013 by hgpu
The QuantLib library is a popular library used for many areas of computational finance. In this work, the parallel processing power of the GPU is used to accelerate QuantLib financial applications. Black-Scholes, Monte-Carlo, Bonds, and Repo code paths in QuantLib …
May 6, 2013 by hgpu
This thesis reviews the fast marching method as a technique for computing the distance transform on GPU in the context of a radiotherapy planning software. The method has some interesting characteristics that, given the right circumstances, allow the distance transform …
May 3, 2013 by hgpu
This document introduces WebCL [1], a new standard under development by the Khronos Group, for highperformance computing in web browsers. Since WebCL wraps OpenCL, the course starts by reviewing important OpenCL [2] concepts. Next, we detail how to program with …
May 1, 2013 by hgpu
We address the low popularity of C++ in computational science by introducing a set of orthogonal libraries: The CUDA-, OpenCL-, and OpenMP-enabled linear algebra library ViennaCL, the mesh datastructure library ViennaGrid, a data storage facility named ViennaData, and the symbolic …
April 1, 2013 by hgpu
This paper discusses issues related to parallel computing in Economics. It highlights new methodologies and resources that are available for solving and estimating economic models and emphasizes situations when they are useful and others where they are impractical. Two examples …
February 15, 2013 by hgpu
Passwords are still the preferred method of user authentication for a large number of applications. In order to derive cryptographic keys from (human-entered) passwords, key-derivation functions are used. One of the most well-known key-derivation functions is the standardized PBKDF2 (RFC2898), …
February 14, 2013 by hgpu
General-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU) have emerged as an important class of shared memory parallel processing architectures, with widespread deployment in every computer class from high-end supercomputers to embedded mobile platforms. Relative to more traditional multicore systems of today, GPGPUs …
January 17, 2013 by hgpu
Searching similarities between sequences is a fundamental operation in bioinformatics, providing insight in biological functions as well as tools for high-throughput data. There is a need to have algorithms able to process efficiently billions of sequences. To look for approximate …
December 25, 2012 by hgpu
A novel metric is introduced to compare the supercomputing resources available to academic researchers on a national basis. Data from the supercomputing Top 500 and the top 500 universities in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) are combined to …
December 20, 2012 by hgpu
The performance of database operations has always been an important factor in database research being done. This has never been more important, as the quantity of data is growing at an alarming rate. This coupled with the recent growth of …
December 18, 2012 by hgpu
After the opening of the graphics processing unit (GPU) for general purpose computations, an entirely new computing model has emerged providing a temporary break in the endless race for even faster and more powerful computing methods and devices. Since it …
December 10, 2012 by hgpu
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