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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"Graphics Processing Unit"”.
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Graphics Processing Unit Acceleration Of Computational Electromagnetic Methods
The use of Graphical Processing Units (GPU's) for scientific applications has been evolving and expanding for the decade. GPU's provide an alternative to the CPU in the creation and execution of the numerical codes that are often relied upon in to perform simulations in computational …
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Multi-drug association rule mining on graphics processing unit
… GPU computing is the next evolution in processing architectures; utilization of this massively parallel processor towards drug data mining will accelerate the research and discovery of drug-symptom associations that will save money and lives"--Leaf iv.
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Graphics processing unit accelerated coarse-grained protein-protein docking
In this work, we describe a Graphics processing unit (GPU) implementation of the Kim-Hummer coarse-grained model for protein docking simulations, using a Replica Exchange Monte-Carlo (REMC) method. Our highly parallel implementation vastly increases the size- and time scales accessible to molecular …
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Near real-time early cancer detection using a graphics processing unit
… method not only used GPU technology to speed up processing, this method also applied edge enhancement via Gaussian Fuzzy Edge Enhancement. After edge enhancement, multiple thresholds (or tuning variables) were identified and adjusted to reduce computational requirements, decrease false positives …
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Acceleration of Monte Carlo Value at Risk Estimation Using Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
… of assets in a portfolio are very large. The graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized multiprocessor which has highly parallel structure supporting more effective than general-purpose CPUs for a range of complex algorithms. In this paper, we will investigate the acceleration of Monte …
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Proton Computed Tomography: Matrix Data Generation Through General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit Reconstruction
… (SAP) methods. General purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) have hundreds of stream processors for massively parallel calculations. A GPGPU cluster is a set of nodes, with each node containing a set of GPGPUs. This thesis describes a proton simulator that was developed to …
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Graphics Processing Unit-Accelerated Numerical Simulations and Theoretical Study of Qubit Dynamics in Realistic Systems
… The bulk of this work is focused on creating Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-accelerated computer simulations of quantum systems with advanced numerical and analytical techniques. Simulations can guide experiments attempting to create building blocks of quantum computers - qubits and their …
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Computational Experience with Linear Optimization and Related Problems
… software is integrally linked to the preprocessing techniques employed by software. Existing preprocessing techniques are reviewed, and the relative cost and effectiveness of these techniques are explored. Scaling is the most common preconditioning technique utilized in linear …
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A software-defined receiver for laser communications using a GPU
… electronics and software implementations. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) can reduce the complexity in receiver design since GPUs require less specialized knowledge and can enable faster development times than Field Programmnable Cate Array (FPGA) implementations, while still retaining …
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Algorithms and technologies for photonic crystal modelling
… to obtain a speed up in the modelling process. A graphics processing unit was used to do general purpose computation. Graphics processing units generally show significant speed up when compared to central processing unit for filling the matrices required for the meshless method. For accelerating …
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Scalability Analysis of Synchronous Data-Parallel Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Learners
… models for ANN algorithms on state-of-the-art Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) based parallel compute clusters.
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System for Collision Detection Between Deformable Models Built on Axis Aligned Bounding Boxes and GPU Based Culling
… propose a new system built as a combination of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) based culling and Axis Aligned Bounding Box (AABB) based culling. Techniques for performing hierarchy-less GPU-based culling are given. We then discuss how and when to switch between GPU-based culling and AABB based …
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Distributed Support Vector Machine With Graphics Processing Units
… distribute each chunk to a different machine and processing SVM training within each chunk). In addition, we moved the kernel calculation part in SVM classification to a graphics processing unit (GPU) which has zero scheduling overhead to create concurrent threads. In this thesis, we will take …
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The case for reconfigurable general purpose GPU computing
General purpose graphics processing unit (GPU) computing (GPGPU) has emerged as a new paradigm for programmers to exploit massive amounts of parallelism for relatively low costs. The abundance of GPUs in desktop and mobile computing platforms makes them ideal for accelerating tasks on multiple …
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Front Rendering on the GPU
… the rendering of glyphs from the CPU to the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). This method extracts glyph metrics from Truetype font files using the FreeType library, processes all glyph data in the font file and places it into a form that can be used by GPU shader programs to draw the glyphs …
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GPU Based Methods for Interactive Information Visualization of Big Data
… records. Recently, the remarkable development of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) makes GPU useful for general-purpose computation. Researchers have proposed GPU based solutions for visualizing big data in graphics and scientific visualization areas. However, GPU based big data solutions in …
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Multilevel multidimensional scaling on the GPU
… scaling designed to exploit modern graphics processing unit (GPU) hard-ware. We also present GPU-SF, a parallel, force-based subsystem used by Glimmer. Glimmer organizes input into a hierarchy of levels and recursively applies GPU-SF to combine and refine the levels. The multilevel …
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The application of GPU to molecular communication studies
… thesis applies the recent trends in parallel processing, via graphics processing unit (GPU), to the field of molecular communications (MC), an investigation into communication possibilities of futuristic in vivo nanomachines. Existing MC simulations have not fully accounted for structural …
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