Designing Scientific Applications on GPUs by Raphael Couturier

By Raphael Couturier

Many of today’s advanced clinical purposes now require an enormous volume of computational energy. normal function portraits processing devices (GPGPUs) permit researchers in various fields to learn from the computational strength of all of the cores on hand inside of images cards.

Understand some great benefits of utilizing GPUs for plenty of medical Applications

Designing clinical purposes on GPUs exhibits you the way to take advantage of GPUs for functions in various medical fields, from physics and arithmetic to machine technology. The ebook explains the tools beneficial for designing or porting your medical software on GPUs. it is going to enhance your wisdom approximately photograph processing, numerical functions, method to layout effective functions, optimization tools, and masses more.

Everything you must Design/Port Your clinical program on GPUs

The first a part of the e-book introduces the GPUs and Nvidia’s CUDA programming version, presently the main common setting for designing GPU functions. the second one half specializes in major photograph processing purposes on GPUs. The 3rd half provides normal methodologies for software program improvement on GPUs and the fourth half describes using GPUs for addressing numerous optimization difficulties. The 5th half covers many numerical functions, together with hindrance difficulties, fluid simulation, and atomic physics versions. The final half illustrates agent-based simulations, pseudorandom quantity iteration, and the answer of enormous sparse linear platforms for integer factorization. a few of the codes offered within the booklet can be found online.

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1 The simplest way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Further optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Reducing register count . . . . . . . . . . 2 More data output per thread . . . . . . . A 5×5 and more median filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 A register-only 5×5 median filter . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Fast approximated n × n median filter . . . . . . . . . Bibliography . .

1 A register-only 5×5 median filter . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Fast approximated n × n median filter . . . . . . . . . Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 32 32 33 35 37 37 38 39 42 44 44 47 51 Introduction Median filtering is a well-known method used in a wide range of application frameworks as well as a standalone filter especially for salt and pepper denoising. It is able to greatly reduce the power of noise without blurring edges too much.

Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Introduction 13 13 16 18 21 21 In this chapter we give some simple examples of CUDA programming. The goal is not to provide an exhaustive presentation of all the functionalities of CUDA but rather to give some basic elements. Of course, readers who do not know CUDA are invited to read other books that are specialized on CUDA programming (for example, [2]). 2 First example This first example is intented to show how to build a very simple program with CUDA.

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