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Using GPUs as general-purpose processors has revolutionized parallel computing by offering, for a large and growing set of algorithms, massive data-parallelization on desktop machines. An obstacle to widespread adoption, however, is the…

The ability to train large-scale neural networks has resulted in state-of-the-art performance in many areas of computer vision. These results have largely come from computational break throughs of two forms: model parallelism, e.g. GPU…

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are deployed on most present server, desktop, and even mobile platforms. Nowadays, a growing number of applications leverage the high parallelism offered by this architecture to speed-up general purpose…

The last decade has seen a shift in the computer systems industry where heterogeneous computing has become prevalent. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are now present in supercomputers to mobile phones and tablets. GPUs are used for…

Graphical simulations are a cornerstone of modern media and films. But existing software packages are designed to run on HPC nodes, and perform poorly in the computing cloud. These simulations have complex data access patterns over complex…

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…

Linear Programs (LPs) appear in a large number of applications and offloading them to a GPU is viable to gain performance. Existing work on offloading and solving an LP on a GPU suggests that there is performance gain generally on large…

Restricted solid on solid surface growth models can be mapped onto binary lattice gases. We show that efficient simulation algorithms can be realized on GPUs either by CUDA or by OpenCL programming. We consider a deposition/evaporation…

RUMD is a general purpose, high-performance molecular dynamics (MD) simulation package running on graphical processing units (GPU's). RUMD addresses the challenge of utilizing the many-core nature of modern GPU hardware when simulating…

The main objective of this work consists in analyzing sub-structuring method for the parallel solution of sparse linear systems with matrices arising from the discretization of partial differential equations such as finite element, finite…

Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming (GSGP) is a state-of-the-art machine learning method based on evolutionary computation. GSGP performs search operations directly at the level of program semantics, which can be done more efficiently…

GPU-based simulation environments for embodied AI interleave physics simulation (CUDA) and photorealistic rendering (Vulkan) on a single device. We observe that two foundational scenarios -- simulation data generation and RL training -- can…

Accelerated computing is widely used in high-performance computing. Therefore, it is crucial to experiment and discover how to better utilize GPUGPUs latest generations on relevant applications. In this paper, we present results and share…

We present the GPU calculation with the common unified device architecture (CUDA) for the Wolff single-cluster algorithm of the Ising model. Proposing an algorithm for a quasi-block synchronization, we realize the Wolff single-cluster Monte…

The Convex Hull algorithm is one of the most important algorithms in computational geometry, with many applications such as in computer graphics, robotics, and data mining. Despite the advances in the new algorithms in this area, it is…

Over the last ten years, graphics processors have become the de facto accelerator for data-parallel tasks in various branches of high-performance computing, including machine learning and computational sciences. However, with the recent…

Monte Carlo simulations of the Ising model play an important role in the field of computational statistical physics, and they have revealed many properties of the model over the past few decades. However, the effect of frustration due to…

Splotch is a rendering algorithm for exploration and visual discovery in particle-based datasets coming from astronomical observations or numerical simulations. The strengths of the approach are production of high quality imagery and…

Computing at the edge is important in remote settings, however, conventional hardware is not optimized for utilizing deep neural networks. The Google Edge TPU is an emerging hardware accelerator that is cost, power and speed efficient, and…

Commercial graphics processors (GPUs) have high compute capacity at very low cost, which makes them attractive for general purpose scientific computing. In this paper we show how graphics processors can be used for N-body simulations to…