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Modern GPUs synchronize threads grouped in a warp at every instruction. These results in improving SIMD efficiency and makes sharing fetch and decode resources possible. The number of threads included in each warp (or warp size) affects divergence, synchronization overhead and the efficiency of memory access coalescing. Small warps reduce the performance penalty associated with […]

The Trotter-Suzuki approximation leads to an efficient algorithm for solving the time-dependent Schroedinger equation. Using existing highly optimized CPU and GPU kernels, we developed a distributed version of the algorithm that runs efficiently on a cluster. Our implementation also improves single node performance, and is able to use multiple GPUs within a node. The scaling […]

The quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is one of the most difficult combinatorial optimization problems. An effective heuristic for obtaining approximate solutions to the QAP is simulated annealing (SA). Here we describe an SA implementation for the QAP which runs on a graphics processing unit (GPU). GPUs are composed of low cost commodity graphics chips which […]

Thanks to the nature of the graphics processing, the newly released products offer highly parallel processing units with high-memory bandwidth and computational power of more than teraflops per second. The modern GPUs are not only powerful graphic engines but also they are high level parallel programmable processors with very fast computing capabilities and high-memory bandwidth […]

Graph matching is one of the principal methods to formulate the correspondence between two set of points in computer vision and pattern recognition. Most formulations are based on the minimization of a difficult energy function which is known to be NP-hard. Traditional methods solve the minimization problem approximately. In this paper, we derive an exact […]

Thermo vision are used in military, police custom traffic control, industrial and other specific applications for collecting and processing thermo visual information from infrared images. There is a problem in the steps of implementation of the developed methods and algorithms for infrared image processing in real time practical applications of thermo vision systems. Here is […]

We present a strategy for efficient use of all components of a heterogenous compute node of a typical current generation cluster. Such nodes often comprise multiple sockets with a multicore processor per socket and one or more accelerators, possibly from different generations and/or types. Our strategy differs from schedulers such as Quark or SuperMatrix in […]

We present the multiple GPU computing with the common unified device architecture (CUDA) for the Swendsen-Wang multi-cluster algorithm of two-dimensional (2D) q-state Potts model. Extending our algorithm for single GPU computing [Comp. Phys. Comm. 183 (2012) 1155], we realize the GPU computation of the Swendsen-Wang multi-cluster algorithm for multiple GPUs. We implement our code on […]

Spectral unmixing is one of the most popular techniques to analyze remotely sensed hyperspectral images. It generally comprises three stages: 1) reduction of the dimensionality of the original image to a proper subspace; 2) automatic identification of pure spectral signatures (called endmembers); and 3) estimation of the fractional abundance of each endmember in each pixel […]

OP2 is an "active" library framework for the solution of unstructured mesh applications. It aims to decouple the specification of a scientific application from its parallel implementation to achieve code longevity and near-optimal performance through re-targeting the back-end to different multi-core/many-core hardware. This paper presents the design of the current OP2 library for generating efficient […]

Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) have shown acceleration factors over multicores for structured mesh-based Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). However, the value remains unclear for dynamic and irregular applications. Our motivating example is HYDRA, an application used in production at Rolls Royce for the simulation of turbomachinery components of jet engines. In previous work we presented three […]

OP2 is an "active" library framework for the solution of unstructured mesh-based applications. It utilizes source-to-source translation and compilation so that a single application code written using the OP2 API can be transformed into different parallel implementations for execution on different back-end hardware platforms. In this paper we present the design of the current OP2 […]