Introduction to GPU computing and CUOA programming: A case study on FOTO

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 116-122

  De Donno, Danilo ^a   Esposito, Alessandra ^a   Tarricone, Luciano ^a   Catarinucci, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA); FDTD methods; general purpose graphics processing unit (GPU); Parallel processing; parallel programming

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TIME; COMPUTE UNIFIED DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; COMPUTING POWER; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHODS; FDTD METHODS; GENERAL PURPOSE; GPU COMPUTING; INTERACTION PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PROCESSING UNITS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; IMAGE CODING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

PARALLEL PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77956030471     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2010.5586593     Document Type: Article

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