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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)"”.
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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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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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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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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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High-speed polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography: toward intraoperative cancer imaging
… a high-speed swept-source laser and parallel processing on a graphics processing unit (GPU). Results of a preliminary imaging study are also reported, demonstrating that PS-OCT provides enhanced contrast between previously indistinguishable fibrous stroma and invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC).
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Accelerated deconvolution of radio interferometric images using orthogonal matching pursuit and graphics hardware
… (a compressed sensing method) that makes use of graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware, and show significant accuracy improvements over the standard CLEAN. In particular, we show that OMP correctly identifies more sources than CLEAN, identifying up to 82% of the sources in 100 test images, while …
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Application of quantitative second-harmonic generation imaging to dynamic systems
… within a given image. Additionally, we adapted a graphics processing unit (GPU) to the image analysis with an aim to provide a reduction in image processing time. There, we demonstrate the temporal advantage of the GPU-based approach by computing the number of frames analyzed per second for SHG …
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GPU-based Lagrangian heuristic for multidimensional assignment problems with decomposable costs
… efficient parallelization of this algorithm on a graphics processing unit (GPU) based programming architecture. Bigger problems with larger data sets were solved by using multiple processors with each having a GPU of its own. This not only handled the data by distributing it among the processors, …
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Intelligent scheduling for simultaneous CPU-GPU applications
… with both general purpose multicore central processing units (CPU) and specialized accelerators has emerged recently. Graphics processing unit (GPU) is the most widely used accelerator. To fully utilize such a heterogeneous system’s full computing power, coordination between the two distinct …
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Real Time Crowd Visualization using the GPU
… demand real-time interactivity. The sheer processing power demanded by real time interactivity has, thus far, limited crowd simulations to specialized equipment. In this thesis we try to address the issue of rendering and visualizing a large crowd of animated figures at interactive rates. …
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Real-time Visualization of Massive 3D Models on GPU Parallel Architectures
… demands of real-time rendering. Recently, the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has been praised as a massively parallel architecture not only for its significant improvements in performance but also because of its programmability for general-purpose computation. Today's GPUs allow researchers to …
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A graph-based real-time spatial sound framework
… in the graph is processed in parallel using the graphics processing unit (GPU) making this method suitable for real-time virtual immersive applications such as video games and virtual simulations. Results of a user study that was conducted with human participants (the intended users of any …
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