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NVIDIA GPUs are becoming increasingly popular in scientific computation as a way to accelerate the execution of computationally demanding codes. The graphics memory used in GPUs is not protected against soft errors that may be caused by cosmic radiation and thus is a source of concern for the scientific computing community. In this short paper […]

We present an inexpensive hardware system for monitoring power usage of individual CPU hosts and externally attached GPUs in HPC clusters and the software stack for integrating the power usage data streamed in real-time by the power monitoring hardware with the cluster management software tools. We introduce a measure for quantifying the overall improvement in […]

The MIMD Lattice Computation (MILC) code, a Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) application used to simulate four-dimensional SU(3) lattice gauge theory, is one of the largest compute cycle users at many supercomputing centers. Previously we have investigated how one of MILC applications can be accelerated on the Cell Broadband Engine. We currently investigate how this code can […]

We present a tool for intensive processing of digital images based on graphics processing units (GPUs) and multi-core CPU. The tool incorporates innovative filters for the denoising and estimation of missing information in three-dimensional digital images. Both processes are integrated into a pipeline that repeatedly evaluates the image until a given convergence. Finally, 3D images […]

Medical image registration is time-consuming but can be sped up employing parallel processing on the GPU. Normalized mutual information (NMI) is a well performing similarity measure for performing multi-modal registration. We present CUDA based solutions for computing NMI on the GPU and compare the results obtained by rigidly registering multi-modal data sets with a CPU […]

Our project starts from a practical specific application of stereo vision (matching) on a robot arm, which is first building up a vision system for a robot arm to make it obtain the capability of detecting the objects 3D information on a plane. The kernel of the vision system is stereo matching. Stereo matching(correspondence) problem […]

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) offer tremendous computational and processing power. The architecture requires high communication bandwidth and lower latency between computation units and caches. 3D die-stacking technology is a promising approach to meet such requirements. To the best of our knowledge no other study has investigated the implementation of 3D technology in GPUs. In this […]

The algorithmic and computational aspects of 3D finite element numerical integration on GPUs are investigated in the paper. The special stress is put on selecting the proper parallelization strategies depending upon the properties of FEM problems solved and approximations used. The close interplay between the available computational resources of GPUs and the possible implementation strategies […]

This work is an attempt to address the problem of bandwidth limited performance of data intensive GPGPU applications. Performance limited by memory bandwidth is common issue faced by general data intensive HPC applications. In case of the GPU, this problem is more pronounced owing to the unique architecture. This problem has been tackled by optimizing […]

Power-spectrum analysis is an important tool providing critical information about a signal. The range of applications includes communication-systems to DNA-sequencing. If there is interference present on a transmitted signal, it could be due to a natural cause or superimposed forcefully. In the latter case, its early detection and analysis becomes important. In such situations having […]

This article presents two optimized implementations of the PCA algorithm, primarily targeted on spectral image analysis in real time. One of them utilizes the SSE instruction set of contemporary CPUs, and the other one runs on graphics processors, using the CUDA environment. The implementations are evaluated and compared with a multithreaded C implementation compiled by […]

Real-time encoding of high-definition H.264 video is a challenge to current embedded programmable processors. Emerging stream processing methods supported by most GPUs and programmable processors provide a powerful mechanism to achieve surprising high performance in media/signal processing, which bring an opportunity to deal with this challenge. However, traditional serial CAVLC has highly input-dependent execution and […]