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With high computation power and memory bandwidth, graphics processing units (GPUs) lend themselves to accelerate data-intensive analytics, especially when such applications fit the single instruction multiple data (SIMD) model. However,…

Recent advances in reprogrammable hardware (e.g., FPGAs) and memory technology (e.g., DDR4, HBM) promise to solve performance problems inherent to graph processing like irregular memory access patterns on traditional hardware (e.g., CPU).…

Astronomers have come to rely on the increasing performance of computers to reduce, analyze, simulate and visualize their data. In this environment, faster computation can mean more science outcomes or the opening up of new parameter spaces…

This paper introduces the implementation of the Figaro-GPU algorithm for computing a QR and SVD decomposition over a join matrix defined by the natural join over two tables on GPUs. Figaro-GPU's main novelty is a GPU implementation of the…

We present the results of gravitational direct $N$-body simulations using the commercial graphics processing units (GPU) NVIDIA Quadro FX1400 and GeForce 8800GTX, and compare the results with GRAPE-6Af special purpose hardware. The force…

We present a set of rules to guide the design of GPU algorithms. These rules are grounded on the principle of reducing waste in GPU utility to achieve good speed up. In accordance to these rules, we propose GPU algorithms for 2D…

Graphics processing unit (GPU), although a powerful performance-booster, also has many security vulnerabilities. Due to these, the GPU can act as a safe-haven for stealthy malware and the weakest `link' in the security `chain'. In this…

The most popular heterogeneous many-core platform, the CPU+GPU combination, has received relatively little attention in operating systems research. This platform is already widely deployed: GPUs can be found, in some form, in most desktop…

Given its high integration density, high speed, byte addressability, and low standby power, non-volatile or persistent memory is expected to supplement/replace DRAM as main memory. Through persistency programming models (which define…

Matrix multiplication is a fundamental operation in both training of neural networks and inference. To accelerate matrix multiplication, Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) provide it implemented in hardware. Due to the increased throughput…

Modern data analytics requires a huge amount of computing power and processes a massive amount of data. At the same time, the underlying computing platform is becoming much more heterogeneous on both hardware and software. Even though…

Load-balancing among the threads of a GPU for graph analytics workloads is difficult because of the irregular nature of graph applications and the high variability in vertex degrees, particularly in power-law graphs. We describe a novel…

We present an algorithm named "Chamomile Scheme". The scheme is fully optimized for calculating gravitational interactions on the latest programmable Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), NVIDIA GeForce8800GTX, which has (a) small but fast shared…

Within the scope of reacting flow simulations, the real-time direct integration (DI) of stiff ordinary differential equations (ODE) for the computation of chemical kinetics stands as the primary demand on computational resources. Meanwhile,…

This research proposes a practical method for detecting featureless objects by using image alignment approach with a robust similarity measure in industrial applications. This similarity measure is robust against occlusion, illumination…

A previous study of MD algorithms designed for GPU use is extended to cover more recent developments in GPU architecture. Algorithm modifications are described, together with extensions to more complex systems. New measurements include the…

Leveraging Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to accelerate scientific software has proven to be highly successful, but in order to extract more performance, GPU programmers must overcome the high latency costs associated with their use. One…

In many Multimedia content analytics frameworks feature likelihood maps represented as histograms play a critical role in the overall algorithm. Integral histograms provide an efficient computational framework for extracting multi-scale…

Evolution can be broadly described in terms of mutations of the genotype and the subsequent selection of the phenotype. The full enumeration of a given genotype-phenotype (GP) map is therefore a powerful technique in examining evolutionary…

eGPU, a recently-reported soft GPGPU for FPGAs, has demonstrated very high clock frequencies (more than 750 MHz) and small footprint. This means that for the first time, commercial soft processors may be competitive for the kind of heavy…