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The utilization of GPUs and the massively parallel computing paradigm have become increasingly prominent in many research domains. Recent developments of platforms, such as OpenCL and CUDA, enable the usage of heterogeneous parallel computing in a wide-spread field. However, the efficient utilization of parallel hardware requires profound knowledge of parallel programming and the hardware itself. […]

The paper presents application of OpenCLLink in Wolfram Mathematica to accelerate fully recurrent neural networks using GPU. We also show the idea of automatically generated parts of source code using SymbolicC.

Large-scale numerical simulations of detailed brain circuit models are important for identifying hypotheses on brain functions and testing their consistency and plausibility. An ongoing challenge for simulating realistic models is, however, computational speed. In this paper, we present the GeNN (GPU-enhanced Neuronal Networks) framework, which aims to facilitate the use of graphics accelerators for computational […]

This paper presents an efficient parallel Adaptive Inverse Distance Weighting (AIDW) interpolation algorithm on modern Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). The presented algorithm is an improvement of our previous GPU-accelerated AIDW algorithm by adopting fast k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN) search. In AIDW, it needs to find several nearest neighboring data points for each interpolated point to adaptively […]

Human activity recognition (HAR) tasks have traditionally been solved using engineered features obtained by heuristic processes. Current research suggests that deep convolutional neural networks are suited to automate feature extraction from raw sensor inputs. However, human activities are made of complex sequences of motor movements, and capturing this temporal dynamics is fundamental for successful HAR. […]

While contemporary GPU architectures are heavily biased towards the execution of predictably regular data parallelism, many real application domains are based around data structures which are naturally sparse and irregular. In this paper we demonstrate that high level programming and high performance GPU execution for sparse, irregular problems are not mutually exclusive. Our insight is […]

Power consumption is a major obstacle for High Performance Computing (HPC) systems in their quest towards the holy grail of ExaFLOP performance. Significant advances in power efficiency have to be made before this goal can be attained and accurate modeling is an essential step towards power efficiency by optimizing system operating parameters to match dynamic […]

We introduce a task-parallel algorithm for sparse incomplete Cholesky factorization that utilizes a 2D sparse partitioned-block layout of a matrix. Our factorization algorithm follows the idea of algorithms-by-blocks by using the block layout. The algorithm-by-blocks approach induces a task graph for the factorization. These tasks are inter-related to each other through their data dependences in […]

2016 4th International Symposium on Computational and Business Intelligence (ISCBI 2016) will be held in Olten, Switzerland during September 5-7, 2016. ISCBI 2016 is organized by International Neural Network Society (INNS) India Regional Chapter and University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland, is the flagship event of INNS-India. All submissions will be peer […]

The Explicit Finite Element Method is a powerful tool in nonlinear dynamic finite element analysis. Recent major developments in computational devices, in particular, General Purpose Graphical Processing Units (GPGPU’s) now make it possible to increase the performance of the explicit FEM. This dissertation investigates existing explicit finite element method algorithms which are then redesigned for […]

In this paper, we propose heterogeneous (CPU+GPU) hash tables, that optimize operations for frequently accessed keys. The idea is to maintain a dynamic set of most frequently accessed keys in the GPU memory and the rest of the keys in the CPU main memory. Further, queries are processed in batches of fixed size. We measured […]

GPUs have established themselves in the computing landscape, convincing users and designers by their excellent performance and energy efficiency. They differ in many aspects from general-purpose CPUs, for instance their highly parallel architecture, their thread-collective bulk-synchronous execution model, and their programming model. In particular, languages like CUDA or OpenCL require users to express parallelism very […]