high performance computing on graphics processing units: hgpu.org

An algorithm for evolving neural network via the genetic algorithm based on GPU parallel architecture was implemented on the CUDA, resulting in a system called CuParcone (CUDA based Partially Connected Neural Evolutionary) and was used on gender face recognition. By using the powerful ability of GPU parallel computing, CuParcone achieves a performance increase about 323 times than Parcone algorithm, which runs on a single-processor. With this new model, a gender recognition experiment was made on 530 face images (265 females and 265 males from Color FERET database), including not only frontal faces but also the faces rotated from -40 degrees ~40 degrees in the direction of horizontal, and achieved the accuracy rate of 90.84%.