GPU accelerated fast FEM deformation simulation
Fac. of Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Macau, Macau
IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, 2008. APCCAS 2008
@conference{liu2008gpu,
title={GPU accelerated fast FEM deformation simulation},
author={Liu, Y. and Jiao, S. and Wu, W. and De, S.},
booktitle={Circuits and Systems, 2008. APCCAS 2008. IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on},
pages={606–609},
year={2008},
organization={IEEE}
}
In this paper we present a general FEM (finite element method) solution that enables fast dynamic deformation simulation on the newly available GPU (graphics processing unit) hardware with compute unified device architecture (CUDA) from NVIDIA. CUDA-enabled GPUs harness the power of 128 processors which allow data parallel computations. Compared to the previous GPGPU, it is significantly more flexible with a C language interface. We not only implement FEM deformation computation algorithms with CUDA but also analyze the performance in detail. Our test results indicate that the GPU with CUDA enables about 4 times speedup for FEM deformation computation on an Intel(R) Core 2 Quad 2.0 GHz machine with GeForce 8800 GTX.
April 25, 2011 by hgpu
