GPGPU |
General-Purpose Computation Using Graphics Hardware
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IntroductionGPGPU stands for General-Purpose computation on GPUs. With the increasing programmability of commodity graphics processing units (GPUs), these chips are capable of performing more than the specific graphics computations for which they were designed. They are now capable coprocessors, and their high speed makes them useful for a variety of applications. The goal of this page is to catalog the current and historical use of GPUs for general-purpose computation.
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Genome Technology Article about GPGPU: "Not Just for Kids Anymore" This article at Genome Technology gives a brief overview of GPGPU, with a focus on biological information processing using NVIDIA CUDA Technology. The article discusses the results from UIUC's NAMD / VMD project and neurological simulation company Evolved Machines.
Posted: 10 Sep 2007 [GPGPU /Med & Bio] # Initial Experiences Porting a Bioinformatics Application to a Graphics Processor Bioinformatics applications are one of the most compute-demanding applications today. While traditionally these applications are executed on cluster or dedicated parallel systems, this paper by M. Charalambous, P. Trancoso, and A. Stamatikis at the University of Cyprus and FORTH explores the use of an alternative architecture. The authors focus on exploiting the characteristics offered by the graphics processors (GPU) in order to accelerate a bioinformatics application. This paper presents the initial results on porting RAxML, a bioinformatics program for phylogenetic tree inference, to the GPU.
(Initial Experiences Porting a Bioinformatics Application to a Graphics Processor. M. Charalambous, P. Trancoso, and A. Stamatakis. Proceedings of the 10th Panhellenic Conference in Informatics (PCI 2005))
Posted: 01 Jul 2005 [GPGPU /Med & Bio] # |
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