high performance computing on graphics processing units: hgpu.org

Using modern Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) becomes very useful for computing complex and time consuming processes. GPUs provide high-performance computation capabilities with a good price. This paper deals with a multi-GPU OpenCL and CUDA implementations of k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) algorithm. This work compares performances of OpenCLand CUDA implementations where each of them is suitable for […]

One of the main requirements of internet search engines is the ability to retrieve relevant results with faster response times. Yioop is an open source search engine designed and developed in PHP by Dr. Chris Pollett. The goal of this project is to explore the possibilities of enhancing the performance of Yioop by substituting resource-intensive […]

For decades, the streaming architecture of FPGAs has delivered accelerated performance across many application domains, such as option pricing solvers in finance, computational fluid dynamics in oil and gas, and packet processing in network routers and firewalls. However, this performance has come at the significant expense of programmability, i.e., the performance-programmability gap. In particular, FPGA […]

One of the benefits to programming of OpenCL is platform portability. That is, an OpenCL program that follows the OpenCL specification should, in principle, execute reliably on any platform that supports OpenCL. To assess the current state of OpenCL portability, we provide an experience report examining two sets of open source benchmarks that we attempted […]

We report on an extension to the C-Reduce tool, for automatic reduction of C test cases, to handle OpenCL kernels. This enables an automated method for detecting bugs in OpenCL compilers, by generating large random kernels using the CLsmith generator, identifying kernels that yield result differences across OpenCL platforms and optimisation levels, and using our […]

Benchmarking general-purpose computing on graphics processing unit (GPGPU) aims to profile and compare performance across different devices. Due to the low-level nature of most GPGPU APIs, GPGPU benchmarks are also useful for architectural exploration and program optimization. This can be challenging in mobile devices due to lack of underlying hardware details and limited profiling capabilities […]

OpenCL is a standard for parallel programming of heterogeneous systems. The benefits of a common programming standard are clear; multiple vendors can provide support for application descriptions written according to the standard, thus reducing the program porting effort. While the standard brings the obvious benefits of platform portability, the performance portability aspects are largely left […]

The OpenCL is a standard parallel language which is based on C language. It offers users to take full advantage and also provide the flexibility of high level language. In this paper, we explore the use of OpenCL language to implement the complex design on FPGAs by describing the design with high level abstraction language. […]

While software developers can review their programs to fix bugs, they might not be able to patch a compiler bug due to which their perfectly valid programs misbehave. Moreover, even a formal verification of source code provides no guarantees if the code is miscompiled. For these reasons great effort is spent to increase the reliability […]

Modern GPUs are devices with very high parallelism for a very low cost. Integer and logic instruction support enable us to use them for many workloads unrelated to rendering. Cryptographic algorithms like AES or Blowfish can benefit from being executed on the system’s GPU. Such execution off-loads work from the main CPU, freeing it to […]

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MapReduce, originally developed by Google for search applications, has recently become a popular programming framework for parallel and distributed environments. This paper presents an energy-efficient architecture design for MapReduce on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The major goal is to enable users to program FPGAs with simple MapReduce interfaces, and meanwhile to embrace automatic performance […]