
Chapter 16
Numerical validation and performance
optimization on GPUs of an
application in atomic physics
Rachid Habel
T´el´ecom SudParis, France
Pierre Fortin, Fabienne J´ez´equel, and Jean-Luc Lamotte
Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6, Universit´e Pierre et Marie Curie,
France
Stan Scott
School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, The
Queen’s University of Belfast, United Kingdom
16.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
16.2 2DRMP and the PROP program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
16.2.1 Principles of