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Explicit Parallelization Using MathWorks Toolboxes
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Several years ago, when multicore multi-CPU machines became mainstream, parallel
processing was recognized as an indispensable tool for solving many scientic and engi-
neering problems.
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Furthermore, modern graphics processing units (GPUs) have gained
popularity for high-performance computing (HPC) since, with the release of the CUDA
(Nvidia’s parallel computing architecture)
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and OpenCL
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frameworks, it is no longer
necessary to program the GPUs through a graphics API. The ability to take advantage of
multiple CPUs, cores and GPUs is called parallel processing, or parallelization