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We present a method for reconstruction of the visual hull (VH) of an object in real-time from multiple video streams. A state of the art polyhedral reconstruction algorithm is accelerated by implementing it for parallel execution on a multi-core graphics processor (GPU). The time taken to reconstruct the VH is measured for both the accelerated […]

This work presents a methodology for studying active Brownian dynamics on ratchet potentials using interoperating OpenCL and OpenGL frameworks. Programing details along with optimization issues are discussed, followed by a comparison of performance on different devices. Time of visualization using OpenGL sharing buffer with OpenCL has been tested against another technique which, while using OpenGL, […]

Heterogeneous multi-core platforms are increasingly prevalent due to their perceived superior performance over homogeneous systems. The best performance, however, can only be achieved if tasks are accurately mapped to the right processors. OpenCL programs can be partitioned to take advantage of all the available processors in a system. However, finding the best partitioning for any […]

Paper presents results obtained when porting FEM 2D linear elastostatic local stiffness matrix calculations to Tesla architecture with OpenCL framework. Comparison with native NVIDIA CUDA implementations has been provided.

The current trend towards multi-core/manycore and accelerated architectures presents challenges, both in portability, and also in the choices that developers must make on how to use the resources that these architectures provide. This paper explores some of the possibilities that are enabled by the Open Computing Language (OpenCL), and proposes a programming model that will […]

The idea of distributed computer emulation is presented within this paper. Since classic emulation techniques put the power load on the host CPU only, the new approach tries to distribute the load among other available processors within the host platform. The implementation uses OpenCL framework. This standard allows writing high parallel and portable programs in […]

This study aims to implement and test the NVIDIA’s and AMD’s early OpenCL compatibility implementation release on a back-projection step, the most time consuming part of an FBP reconstruction, and the Haralick’s texture feature extraction algorithm for CT images.

An implementation of the nonlinear iterative partial least squares algorithm (NIPALS) was used as a test case for use of OpenCL for computation on a general purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU) cluster using MPI. Timing results are shown along with results of a model of time required per iteration for defined problem sizes. Various steps […]

In this article we present a study on an implementation, named clAES, of the symmetric key cryptography algorithm Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) using the Open Computing Language (OpenCL) emerging standard. We will show a comparison of the results obtained benchmarking clAES on various multi/many core architectures. We will also introduce the basic concepts of AES […]

In this paper we present an implementation of the Smith-Waterman algorithm. The implementation is done in OpenCL and targets high-end GPUs. This implementation is capable of computing similarity indexes between reference and query sequences. The implementation is designed for the sequence alignment paths calculation. In addition, it is capable of handling very long reference sequences […]

Programmable graphics processing unit (GPU) has over the years become an integral part of today’s computing systems. The GPU use-cases have gradually been extended from graphics towards a wide range of applications. Since the programmable GPU is now making its way to mobile devices, it is interesting to study these new use-cases also there. To […]

There are many projects focused on performance measurements of GPUs but there is no unifying test framework that could be used for evaluating generic floating point intensive applications. This work describes the testing suite for evaluating GPUs that measures raw performance and numerical precision of a subset of OpenCL operations, and analyzes results obtained from […]