Designing Scientific Applications on GPUs

Contents

List of Figures xi

List of Tables xvii

Preface xxi

I Presentation of GPUs 1

1 Presentation of the GPU architecture and of the CUDA

environment 3

Rapha¨el Couturier

2 Introduction to CUDA 13

Rapha¨el Couturier

II Image processing 23

3 Setting up the environment 25

Gilles Perrot

4 Implementing a fast median filter 31

Gilles Perrot

5 Implementing an efficient convolution operation on GPU 53

Gilles Perrot

III Software development 71

6 Development of software components for heterogeneous

many-core architectures 73

Stefan L. Glimberg, Allan P. Engsig-Karup, Allan S. Nielsen, and

Bernd Dammann

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7 Development methodologies for GPU and cluster of GPUs ...