CPU-based Application Transformation to CUDA: Transformation of CPU-based Applications To Leverage on Graphics Processors using CUDA

Mohd Nazlee, Anas; Hussin, Fawnizu Azmadi

ISBN 10: 3659171212 / ISBN 13: 9783659171215

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CPU-based Application Transformation to CUDA: Transformation of CPU-based Applications To Leverage on Graphics Processors using CUDA
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659171212
• ISBN 13: 9783659171215
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Scientific computation requires a great amount of computing power especially in floating-point operation but a high-end multi-cores processor is currently limited in terms of floating point operation performance and parallelization. Recent technological advancement has made parallel computing technically and financially feasible using Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) developed by NVIDIA. This research focuses on measuring the performance of CUDA and implementing CUDA for a scientific computation involving the process of porting the source code from CPU to GPU using direct integration technique. The ported source code is then optimized by managing the resources to achieve performance gain over CPU. It is found that CUDA is able to boost the performance of the system up to 69 times in Parboil Benchmark Suite. Successful attempt at porting Serpent encryption algorithm and Lattice Boltzmann Method provided up to 7 times throughput performance gain and up to 10 times execution time performance gain respectively over the CPU. Direct integration guideline for porting the source code is then produced based on the two implementations.

About the Author

Anas Mohd Nazlee received Masters of Science and Bachelors of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia in 2012 and 2009 respectively. Currently he is working as Design Engineer with Intel Microelectronics (M) Sdn. Bhd.