Title :
CUDA: Scalable parallel programming for high-performance scientific computing
Author_Institution :
NVIDIA Corp., Santa Clara, CA
Abstract :
Graphics processing units (GPUs) originally designed for computer video cards have emerged as the most powerful chip in a high-performance workstation. Unlike multicore CPU architectures, which currently ship with two or four cores, GPU architectures are "manycore" with hundreds of cores capable of running thousands of threads in parallel. NVIDIA\´s CUDA is a co-evolved hardware-software architecture that enables high-performance computing developers to harness the tremendous computational power and memory bandwidth of the GPU in a familiar programming environment - the C programming language. We describe the CUDA programming model and motivate its use in the biomedical imaging community.
Keywords :
C language; biomedical imaging; computer graphic equipment; computer graphics; medical computing; parallel programming; C programming language; CUDA; GPU computing; biomedical imaging; co-evolved hardware-software architecture; computational power; graphics processing units; high-performance scientific computing; memory bandwidth; scalable parallel programming; Biomedical computing; Central Processing Unit; Computer architecture; Computer graphics; Marine vehicles; Multicore processing; Parallel programming; Scientific computing; Workstations; Yarn;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 2008. ISBI 2008. 5th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2002-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2003-2
DOI :
10.1109/ISBI.2008.4541126
