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Alignment is the fundamental operation used to compare biological sequences. It also serves to identify regions of similarity that are eventually consequences of structural, functional, or evolutionary relationships. Today, the processing of sequences from large DNA or protein databases is a big challenge. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are based on a highly parallel, many-core streaming […]

Navier-Stokes Equations are a mathematical model to describe the behaviour of fluids. They have proven to represent real fluid flows quite well and are base for many fluid simulations. In order to exploit the performance provided by modern many-core systems, fluid simulation algorithms must be able to efficiently solve the Navier-Stokes Equations in parallel. The […]

We introduce an interactive Monte Carlo path tracer that uses the OpenCL framework. A path tracer draws a photo-realistic image of a 3D scene by simulating physical effects of light. Interactivity enables the user to move around the scene in real time, while OpenCL makes it possible to run the same code on either CPU […]

Multichannel acoustic signal processing has undergone major development in recent years due to the increased complexity of current audio processing applications. People want to collaborate through communication with the feeling of being together and sharing the same environment, what is considered as Immersive Audio Schemes. In this phenomenon, several acoustic effects are involved: 3D spatial […]

Parallel architectures like GPUs are a tantalizing compute fabric for performance-hungry developers. While GPUs enable order-of-magnitude performance increases in many data-parallel application domains, writing efficient codes that can actually manifest those increases is a non-trivial endeavor, typically requiring developers to exercise specialized architectural features exposed directly in the programming model. Achieving good performance on GPUs […]

Real-time dense computer vision and SLAM offer great potential for a new level of scene modelling, tracking and real environmental interaction for many types of robot, but their high computational requirements mean that use on mass market embedded platforms is challenging. Meanwhile, trends in low-cost, low-power processing are towards massive parallelism and heterogeneity, making it […]

A straightforward implementation of an algorithm in a general-purpose programming language does usually not deliver peak performance: Compilers often fail to automatically tune the code for certain hardware peculiarities like memory hierarchy or vector execution units. Manually tuning the code is firstly error-prone as well as time-consuming and secondly taints the code by exposing those […]

This paper presents a new parallel approach to identification of linear repetitive processes based on subspace algorithms. Parallel realizations of these algorithms are tested on various graphic cards that use NVIDIA CUDA technology. The paper describes implementation of subspace identification algorithms and their parallel speedup, efficiency, throughput, and delay. The parallel approach to the identification […]

For modeling proteins in conformational states, two methods of representation are used: internal coordinates and Cartesian coordinates. Each of these representations contain a large amount of structural and simulation information. Different processing steps require one or the other representation. Our goal is to rapidly translate between these coordinate spaces so that a scientist can choose […]

Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) is a popular technique for modeling computational electrodynamics, and is used within many research areas, such as the development of antennas, ultrasound imaging, and seismic wave propagation. Simulating large domains can however be very compute and memory demanding, which has motivated the use of cluster computing, and lately also the use of […]

We present a library that provides optimized implementations for deep learning primitives. Deep learning workloads are computationally intensive, and optimizing the kernels of deep learning workloads is difficult and time-consuming. As parallel architectures evolve, kernels must be reoptimized for new processors, which makes maintaining codebases difficult over time. Similar issues have long been addressed in […]

The paper presents a solution to the problem of movement tracking in images acquired from video cameras monitoring outside terrain. The solution is resistant to such adverse factors as: leaves fluttering, grass waving, smoke or fog, movement of clouds etc. The presented solution is based on well known image processing methods, nevertheless the key was […]