• DocumentCode
    2422453
  • Title

    A Study on Mixed Precision Techniques for a GPU-based SIP Solver

  • Author

    Igounet, Pablo ; Dufrechou, Ernesto ; Pedemonte, Martín ; Ezzatti, Pablo

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. de Comput., Univ. de la Repub., Montevideo, Uruguay
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    24-25 Oct. 2012
  • Firstpage
    7
  • Lastpage
    12
  • Abstract
    This article presents the study and application of mixed precision techniques to accelerate a GPU-based implementation of the Strongly Implicit Procedure (SIP) to solve hepta-diagonal linear systems. In particular, two different options to incorporate mixed precision in the GPU implementation are discussed and one of them is implemented. The experimental evaluation of our proposal demonstrates that a runtime similar to a single precision implementation on GPU can be attained, but achieving a numerical accuracy comparable to double precision arithmetic.
  • Keywords
    digital arithmetic; graphics processing units; GPU-based SIP solver; double precision arithmetic; hepta-diagonal linear systems; mixed precision techniques; strongly implicit procedure; Accuracy; Graphics processing units; Linear systems; Multicore processing; Proposals; Runtime; GPU; SIP; hepta-diagonal systems; mixed precision;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Applications for Multi-Core Architectures (WAMCA), 2012 Third Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    New York, NY
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-5025-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WAMCA.2012.17
  • Filename
    6374745