In the past few years, GPUs have gained a lot of popularity as they offer an opportunity to accelerate many algorithms. In this paper we present a mono, a multi-GPU and GPU cluster implementation, based on CUDA, of a cellular automata. We derive a performance model and establish its accurateness.
Title
Performance model for a cellular automata implementation on a GPU cluster
Faculty
Ingénierie et Architecture
School
HEPIA - Genève
Institute
inIT - Institut d'Ingénierie Informatique et des Télécommunications
Publisher
Amsterdam, Washington D.C., IOS press
Date
2012-06
Pagination
pp. 191-198
Published in
Applications, tools and techniques on the road to exascale computing
Author of the book
De Bosschere, Koen
D'Hollander, Erik
Joubert, Gerhard R.
Padua, David
Peters, Frans
Sawyer, Mark
Series Statement
Advances in parallel computing, no. 22
ISBN
978-1-61499-040-6
