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Graphics processing units (GPUs) have become an attractive option for accelerating scientific computations as a result of advances in the performance and flexibility of GPU hardware, and due to the availability of GPU software development tools targeting general purpose and scientific computation. However, effective use of GPUs in clusters presents a number of application development and system integration challenges. We describe strategies for the decomposition and scheduling of computation among CPU cores and GPUs, and techniques for overlapping communication and CPU computation with GPU kernel execution. We report the adaptation of these techniques to NAMD, a widely-used parallel molecular dynamics simulation package, and present performance results for a 64-core 64-GPU cluster.
Published in:
High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, 2008. SC 2008. International Conference for
Date of Conference: 15-21 Nov. 2008
- Page(s):
- 1 - 9
- E-ISBN :
- 978-1-4244-2835-9
- Print ISBN:
- 978-1-4244-2834-2
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 10846475
- Conference Location :
- Austin, TX
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/SC.2008.5214716
- Product Type:
- Conference Publications
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