high performance computing on graphics processing units: hgpu.org

The present work is an analysis of the performance of the AXPY, DOT and SpMV functions using OpenCL. The code was tested on the NVIDIA Tesla S2050 GPU and Intel Xeon Phi 3120A coprocessor. Due to nature of the AXPY function, only two versions were implemented, the routine to be executed by the CPU and […]

Real-world optimization problems are very complex and NP-hard. The modeling of such problems is in constant evolution in term of constraints and objectives and their resolution is expensive in computation time. With all this change, even metaheuristics, well known for their efficiency, begin to be overtaken by data explosion. Recently, Thanks to the publication of […]

In this paper, we propose a new very simple numerical method for solving liquid-gas compressible flows on two dimensional cartesian meshes. For achieving high performance, the scheme is tested on recent multi-core processors and Graphics Processing Units (GPU), using the OpenCL environment. We describe how to install and to run the code CLBUBBLE for computing […]

This paper presents a multi-swarm PSO algorithm for the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) implemented on OpenCL platform. Our work was motivated by results of time efficiency tests performed for single-swarm algorithm implementation that showed clearly that the benefits of a parallel execution platform can be fully exploited, if the processed population is large. The described […]

Developers have been using utility tools such as CPU-Z, GPU-Z, CUDA-Z, OpenCL-Z for a long time. These tools provide platform and hardware information in details and help developers quickly understand the hardware capabilities. Recently, OpenCL has been supported by most of the latest mobile phones/tablets, as the mobile GPUs are gaining more compute power. OpenCL-A […]

We present clRNG, a library for uniform random number generation in OpenCL. Streams of random numbers act as virtual random number generators. They can be created on the host computer in unlimited numbers, and then used either on the host or on other computing devices by work items to generate random numbers. Each stream also […]

Graphics Processing Units (GPU) and their development tools have advanced recently, and industry has become more interested in using them. Among several development frameworks for GPU(s), OpenCL provides a programming environment to write portable code that can run in parallel. This report describes two case studies of algorithm implementations in OpenCL. The first algorithm is […]

General principles of pseudorandom numbers production for Monte Carlo simulations on GPUs are discussed by creating an OpenCL open-source library of pseudorandom number generators PRNGCL. The library contains implementation of a number of the most popular uniform generators. The most popular pseudorandom number generators for Monte Carlo simulations and libraries for GPUs are reviewed. Some […]

OpenCL, along with CUDA, is one of the main tools used to program GPGPUs. However, it allows running the same code on multi-core CPUs too, making it a rival for the long-established OpenMP. In this paper we compare OpenCL and OpenMP when developing and running compute-heavy code on a CPU. Both ease of programming and […]

Computing systems have become increasingly complex with the emergence of heterogeneous hardware combining multicore CPUs and GPUs. These parallel systems exhibit tremendous computational power at the cost of increased programming effort. This results in a tension between performance and code portability. Typically, code is either tuned in an low-level imperative language using hardware-specific optimizations to […]

Monte Carlo (MC) method has been recognized the most accurate dose calculation method for radiotherapy. However, its extremely long computation time impedes clinical applications. Recently, a lot of efforts have been made to realize fast MC dose calculation on GPUs. Nonetheless, most of the GPU-based MC dose engines were developed in NVidia CUDA environment. This […]

Video chatting is now a popular way of communication. However, poor network ruins the experience as the faces are blurred. To solve this problem, the team offers a solution to preserve the clarity of faces under limited transmission rate. In this project, the primary goal is to design a video encoder that reduces the size […]