Barnes, Frederick R.M. and Pressnell, Thomas and Le Foll, Brendan (2013) Exploring GPGPU Acceleration of Process-Oriented Simulations. In: Welch, Peter H. and Barnes, Frederick R.M. and Broenink, Jan F. and Chalmers, Kevin and Pedersen, Jan B. and Sampson, Adam T., eds. Communicating Process Architectures 2013 Proceedings of the 35th WoTUG Technical Meeting. Open Channel Publishing, pp. 249-262. ISBN 978-0-9565409-7-3. (KAR id:36779)
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Abstract
This paper reports on our experiences of using commodity GPUs to speed-up the execution of fine-grained concurrent simulations. Starting with an existing process-oriented `boids' simulation, we explore a variety of techniques aimed at improving performance, gradually refactoring the original code. Successive improvements lead to a 10-fold improvement in performance, which we believe can still be improved upon, allowing us to explore simulations with larger numbers of agents (30,000 rather than 2,000) interactively and without significant performance degradation.
| Item Type: | Book section |
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| Uncontrolled keywords: | GPGPU, process-oriented simulations |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming, |
| Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing |
| Depositing User: | Frederick Barnes |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2013 01:26 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 10:20 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/36779 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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