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Driven by the availability of experimental data and ability to simulate a biological scale which is of immediate interest, the cellular scale is fast emerging as an ideal candidate for middle-out modelling. As with bottom-up’ simulation approaches, cellular level simulations demand a high degree of computational power, which in large-scale simulations can only be achieved […]

General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) has recently gained considerable attention in various domains such as bioinformatics, databases and distributed computing. GPGPU is based on using the GPU as a co-processor accelerator to offload computationally-intensive tasks from the CPU. This study starts from the observation that a number of GPU features (such as overlapping […]

In computation of full-parallax computer-generated hologram (CGH), balance between speed and memory usage is always the core of algorithm development. To solve the speed problem of coherent ray trace (CRT) algorithm and memory problem of look-up table (LUT) algorithm without sacrificing reconstructed object quality, we develop a novel algorithm with split look-up tables (S-LUT) and […]

The all-pairs shortest-path problem is an intricate part in numerous practical applications. We describe a shared memory cache efficient GPU implementation to solve transitive closure and the all-pairs shortest-path problem on directed graphs for large datasets. The proposed algorithmic design utilizes the resources available on the NVIDIA G80 GPU architecture using the CUDA API. Our […]

GPU architectures are increasingly important in the multi-core era due to their high number of parallel processors. Performance optimization for multi-core processors has been a challenge for programmers. Furthermore, optimizing for power consumption is even more difficult. Unfortunately, as a result of the high number of processors, the power consumption of many-core processors such as […]

In the last few years, GPUs(Graphics Processing Units) have made rapid development. Their ever-increasing computing power and decreasing cost have attracted attention from both industry and academia. In addition to graphics applications, researchers are interested in using them for general purpose computing. Recently, NVIDIA released a new computing architecture, CUDA (Compute Uni¿ed Device Architecture), for […]

General purpose programming on the graphics processing units (GPGPU) has received a lot of attention in the parallel computing community as it promises to offer the highest performance per dollar. The GPUs have been used extensively on regular problems that can be easily parallelized. In this paper, we describe two implementations of List Ranking, a […]

Recently, cellular neural networks (CNNs) have been demonstrated to be a highly effective paradigm applicable in a wide range of areas. Typically, CNNs can be implemented using VLSI circuits, but this would unavoidably require additional hardware. On the other hand, we can also implement CNNs purely by software; this, however, would result in very low […]

The next generation Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are being considered for non-graphics applications. Millimeter wave (60 Ghz) wireless networks that are capable of multi-gigabit per second (Gbps) transfer rates require a significant baseband throughput. In this work, we consider the baseband of WirelessHD, a 60 GHz communications system, which can provide a data rate of […]

Recent advances in the speed and programmability of consumer level graphics hardware has sparked a flurry of research that goes beyond the realm of image synthesis and computer graphics. We examine the use of the GPU (graphics processing unit) as a tool for scientific computing, by analyzing techniques for performing large matrix multiplies in GPU […]

Recent advances in real-time rendering have allowed the GPU implementation of traditionally CPU-restricted algorithms, often with performance increases of an order of magnitude or greater. Such gains are achieved by leveraging the large-scale parallelism of the GPU towards applications that are well-suited for these streaming architectures. By contrast, mesh simplification has traditionally been viewed as […]

The Fourier transform is a well known and widely used tool in many scientific and engineering fields. The Fourier transform is essential for many image processing techniques, including filtering, manipulation, correction, and compression. As such, the computer graphics community could benefit greatly from such a tool if it were part of the graphics pipeline. As […]