Floating-point data compression at 75 Gb/s on a GPU

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  O'Neil, Molly A ^a   Burtscher, Martin ^a  

^a Texas State University   (United States)

Author keywords

floating point data; GPGPU; lossless data compression; real time compression

Indexed keywords

20 GB/S; COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS; FLOATING-POINT DATA; GPGPU; INTER-NODE COMMUNICATION; INTERCONNECTION LINKS; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; LOSSLESS DATA COMPRESSION; NETWORK CARD; NETWORK SPEED; NUMERIC SIMULATION; ON CURRENTS; REAL-TIME COMPRESSION;

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

DATA COMPRESSION;

EID: 79955069764     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1964179.1964189     Document Type: Conference Paper

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