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Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are in the process of becoming a major source of computational power for numerical applications. Originally designed for application of time-consuming graphics operations, GPUs are stream processors that implement the SIMD paradigm. The true degree of parallelism of GPUs is often hidden from the user, making programming even more flexible and […]

A Single Instruction Multiple Thread CUDA interpreter provides SIMD like parallel evaluation of the whole GP population of 1/4 million reverse polish notation (RPN) expressions on graphics cards and nVidia Tesla. Using sub-machine code tree GP a sustain peak performance of 665 billion GP operations per second (10,000 speed up) and an average of 22 […]

A suitable single instruction multiple data GP interpreter can achieve high (Giga GPop/second) performance on a SIMD GPU graphics card by simultaneously running multiple diverse members of the genetic programming population. SPMD dataflow parallelisation is achieved because the single interpreter treats the different GP programs as data. On a single 128 node parallel nVidia GeForce […]

Gaussian split Ewald (GSE) is a versatile Ewald mesh method that is fast and accurate when used with both real-space and k-space Poisson solvers. While real-space methods are known to be asymptotically superior to k-space methods in terms of both computational cost and parallelization efficiency, k-space methods such as smooth particle-mesh Ewald (SPME) have thus […]

Radiometric compensation techniques allow seamless projections onto complex everyday surfaces. Implemented with projector-camera systems they support the presentation of visual content in situations where projection-optimized screens are not available or not desired – as in museums, historic sites, air-plane cabins, or stage performances. We propose a novel approach that employs the full light transport between […]

In this work, we implement a real-time visual tracker that targets the position and 3D pose of objects in video sequences, specifically faces. Using stream processors for performing the computations as well as efficient sparse-template-based particle filtering allows us to achieve real-time processing even when tracking multiple objects simultaneously in high- resolution video frames. Stream […]

To improve situational awareness in power systems, one useful tool used in control centers is bus (or substation) data contouring. Traditionally, the methods developed have used CPU processing, leading to long contour rendering times that reduce interactivity with the visualization. To improve interactivity and increase the data rate which can be handled, contouring methods utilizing […]

A commodity personal computer (PC) can be seen as a hybrid computing system equipped with two different kinds of processors, i.e. CPU and a graphics processing unit (GPU). Since the superiorities of GPUs in the performance and the power efficiency strongly depend on the system configuration and the data size determined at the runtime, a […]

Graphics processor units are fast, inexpensive parallel computing devices. Recently there has been great interest in harnessing this power for various types of scientific computation, including genetic programming. In previous work, we have shown that using the graphics processor provides dramatic speed improvements over a standard CPU in the context of fitness evaluation. In this […]

We present an approach to compute the visual hulls of multiple people in real-time in the presence of occlusions. We prove that the resulting visual hulls are correct and minimal under occlusions. Our proposed algorithm runs completely on the GPU with framerates up to 50fps for multiple people using only one computer equipped with off-the-shelf […]

We present an application programming interface (API) for the C programming language that facilitates the development of dense linear algebra algorithms on graphics processors applying the FLAME methodology. The interface, built on top of the NVIDIA CUBLAS library, implements all the computational functionality of the FLAME/C interface. In addition, the API includes data transference routines […]

We present an inter-architectural comparison of single-and double-precision direct n-body implementations on modern multicore platforms, including those based on the Intel Nehalem and AMD Barcelona systems, the Sony-Toshiba-IBM PowerXCell/8i processor, and NVIDA Tesla C870 and C1060 GPU systems. We compare our implementations across platforms on a variety of proxy measures, including performance, coding complexity, and […]