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Scientific Computing on Commodity Graphics Hardware

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Computational and Information Science (CIS 2004)

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Driven by the need for interactive entertainment, modern PCs are equipped with specialized graphics processors (GPUs) for creation and display of images. These GPUs have become increasingly programmable, to the point that they now are capable of efficiently executing a significant number of computational kernels from non-graphical applications. In this introductory paper we first present a high-level overview of modern graphics hardware’s architecture, then introduce several applications in scientific computing that can be efficiently accelerated by GPUs. Finally we list programming tools available for application development on GPUs.

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  1. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA

    Ruigang Yang

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  1. School of Electronic Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui, China

    Jun Zhang

  2. College of Science, Donghua University, 1882 Yan’an Xilu Road, 20051, Shanghai, China

    Ji-Huan He

  3. BASICS, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200030, Shanghai, China

    Yuxi Fu

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Yang, R. (2004). Scientific Computing on Commodity Graphics Hardware. In: Zhang, J., He, JH., Fu, Y. (eds) Computational and Information Science. CIS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3314. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30497-5_169

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