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Matlab is very widely used in scientific computing, but Matlab computational efficiency is lower than C language program. In order to improve the computing speed, some toolbox can use GPU to accelerate the computation. This paper describes…

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We equip dynamic geometry software (DGS) with a user-friendly method that enables massively parallel calculations on the graphics processing unit (GPU). This interplay of DGS and GPU opens up various applications in education and…

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Many artificial intelligence (AI) devices have been developed to accelerate the training and inference of neural networks models. The most common ones are the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). They are highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 xiangyang Ju , Yunsong Wang , Daniel Murnane , Nicholas Choma , Steven Farrell , Paolo Calafiura

General purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) is dramatically changing the landscape of high performance computing in astronomy. In this paper, we identify and investigate several key decision areas, with a goal of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-25 Christopher J. Fluke , David G. Barnes , Benjamin R. Barsdell , Amr H. Hassan

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) can speed up the numerical solution of various problems in astrophysics including the dynamical evolution of stellar systems; the performance gain can be more than a factor 100 compared to using a Central…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-28 Mario Spera

In recent years graphical processing units (GPUs) have become a powerful tool in scientific computing. Their potential to speed up highly parallel applications brings the power of high performance computing to a wider range of users.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Uldis Locans , Andreas Adelmann , Andreas Suter , Jannis Fischer , Werner Lustermann , Gunther Dissertori , Qiulin Wang

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are high performance co-processors originally intended to improve the use and quality of computer graphics applications. Once, researchers and practitioners noticed the potential of using GPU for general…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-07-12 K. Parand , Saeed Zafarvahedian , Sayyed A. Hossayni

General Purpose Graphic Processing Unit(GPGPU) is used widely for achieving high performance or high throughput in parallel programming. This capability of GPGPUs is very famous in the new era and mostly used for scientific computing which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Vajira Thambawita , Roshan G. Ragel , Dhammike Elkaduwe

After years of using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to accelerate scientific applications in fields as varied as tomography, computer vision, climate modeling, digital forensics, geospatial databases, particle physics, radio astronomy,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Ben van Werkhoven , Willem Jan Palenstijn , Alessio Sclocco

A finite-difference Micromagnetic simulation code written in MATLAB is presented with Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) acceleration. The high performance of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is demonstrated compared to a typical Central…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Ru Zhu

We report a novel application of graphics processing units (GPUs) for the purpose of accelerating the search pipelines for gravitational waves from coalescing binaries of compact objects. A speed-up of 16 fold has been achieved compared…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-25 Shin Kee Chung , Linqing Wen , David Blair , Kipp Cannon , Amitava Datta

General-purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) has been introduced to many areas of scientific research such as bioinformatics, cryptography, computer vision, and deep learning. However, computing models in the High-energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Max Isacson , Mattias Ellert , Richard Brenner

With the rapid development of in-depth learning, neural network and deep learning algorithms have been widely used in various fields, e.g., image, video and voice processing. However, the neural network model is getting larger and larger,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Teng Wang , Chao Wang , Xuehai Zhou , Huaping Chen

The latest Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are reported to reach up to 200 billion floating point operations per second (200 Gflops) and to have price performance of 0.1 cents per M flop. These facts raise great interest in the…

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Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is a powerful computational tool to study the behavior of macromolecular systems. But many simulations of this field are limited in spatial or temporal scale by the available computational resource. In…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-01-22 Ji Xu , Ying Ren , Wei Ge , Xiang Yu , Xiaozhen Yang , Jinghai Li

Future computing systems, from handhelds to supercomputers, will undoubtedly be more parallel and heterogeneous than todays systems to provide more performance and energy efficiency. Thus, GPUs are increasingly being used to accelerate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Saeed Taheri , Apan Qasem , Martin Burtscher

The use of GPUs has proliferated for machine learning workflows and is now considered mainstream for many deep learning models. Meanwhile, when training state-of-the-art personal recommendation models, which consume the highest number of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Bilge Acun , Matthew Murphy , Xiaodong Wang , Jade Nie , Carole-Jean Wu , Kim Hazelwood

The vast amount of processing power and memory bandwidth provided by modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) make them a platform for data-intensive applications. The database community identified GPUs as effective co-processors for data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Bernd Amann , Youry Khmelevsky , Gaetan Hains

The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is a powerful tool for parallel computing. In the past years the performance and capabilities of GPUs have increased, and the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) - a parallel computing architecture…

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