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This paper by Collange et al. at Université de Perpignan, France, decribes a prototype to be integrated into simulation codes that estimate temperature, velocity and pressure to design next generation solar receptors. Such codes delegate to GPUs the computation of heat transfer due to radiation. The authors use Monte-Carlo line-by-line ray-tracing through finite volumes. This means data-parallel arithmetic transformations on large data structures. The performance on two recent graphics cards (Nvidia 7800GTX and ATI RX1800XL) show speedups higher than 400 compared to CPU implementations leaving most of CPU computing resources available. As there were some questions pending about the accuracy of the operators implemented in GPUs, the authors start this report with a survey and some contributed tests on the various floating point units available on GPUs. (Graphic processors to speed-up simulations for the design of high performance solar receptors. S. Collange, M. Daumas, D. Defour. Proceedings of the IEEE 18th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors.)