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This paper reports on the development of an MPI/OpenCL implementation of LU, an application-level benchmark from the NAS Parallel Benchmark Suite. An account of the design decisions addressed during the development of this code is presented, demonstrating the importance of memory arrangement and work-item/work-group distribution strategies when applications are deployed on different device types. The […]

The parallelism in GPUs offers extremely good performance on a lot of high-performance computing applications. Linear algebra is one of the areas which can benefit from GPU potential. Conjugate Gradient (CG) benchmark is a significant computation in computing applications. It uses conjugate gradient method that offers numerical solutions on specific systems of linear equations. The […]

The all-pairs shortest paths (APSP) problem finds the shortest path distances between all pairs of vertices,and is one of the most fundamental graph problems. In this paper, a parallel recursive partitioning approach to APSP problem using Open Computing Language (OpenCL) for directed and dense graphs with no negative cyclesbased on R-Kleene algorithm, is presented, which […]

Fractal compression is an efficient technique for image and video encoding that uses the concept of self-referential codes. Although offering compression quality that matches or exceeds traditional techniques with a simpler and faster decoding process, fractal techniques have not gained widespread acceptance due to the computationally intensive nature of its encoding algorithm. In this paper, […]

With the raise of cloud computing infrastructures on one side and the increased accessibility of parallel computational devices on the other, such as GPUs and multi-core CPUs, parallel programming has recently gained a renewed interest. This is particularly true in the domain of video coding, where the complexity and time consumption of the algorithms tend […]

In this paper, a novel parallelized implementation of rotation invariant texture classification using Heterogeneous Computing Platforms like CPU and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is proposed. A complete modeling of the LBP operator as well as its improvised versions of Complete Local Binary Patterns (CLBP) and Multi-scale Local Binary Patterns (MLBP) has been developed on a […]

Nowadays, scientists are often disappointed by the outcome when parallelizing their simulations, in spite of all the tools at their disposal. They often invest much time and money, and do not obtain the expected speed-up. This can come from many factors going from a wrong parallel architecture choice to a model that simply does not […]

OpenCL is now available on a very large set of processors. This makes this language an attractive layer to address multiple targets with a single code base. The question on how sensitive to the underlying hardware is the OpenCL code in practice remains to be better understood. This paper studies how realistic it is to […]

Fast Fourier Transform is one of the most important numerical algorithms in history. It has wide range of applications: audio signal processing, medical imaging, image processing, pattern recognition, computational chemistry, error correcting codes and spectral methods for PDE’s. The goal of this project is to implement an OpenCL based FFT algorithm that has comparable performance […]

With the success of programming models such as Khronos’ OpenCL, heterogeneous computing is going mainstream. However, these models are low-level, even when considering them as systems programming models. For example, OpenCL is effectively an extended subset of C99, limited to the type unsafe procedural abstraction that C has provided for more than 30 years. Computer […]

At its most basic, object-space edge detection iterates through all polygonal edges in each mesh to find those edges that satisfy one or more edge tests. Those that do are expanded and rendered, while the remainder are ignored. These 3D edges, and their resulting accuracy and customizability, set objectspace methods apart from all other categories […]

The aim of this report to elaborate TiViPE modules that make use of Open Computing Language (OpenCL) programming. OpenCL is available in TiViPE from version 2.1.0. The aim of TiViPE is to integrate different technologies in a seamless way using graphical icons [1]. Due to these icons the user does not need to have in […]