Performance dissection of a molecular dynamics code across CUDA and GPU generations

Proceedings - IEEE 27th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops and PhD Forum, IPDPSW 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1355-1364

  Wezowicz, Matthew ^a   Estrada, Trilce ^a   Patel, Sandeep ^a   Taufer, Michela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

CUDA; Fermi GPUs; Kepler GPUs; membrane systems; OpenCL

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER HARDWARE; DISSECTION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HARDWARE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

CUDA; FERMI GPUS; KEPLER GPUS; MEMBRANE SYSTEM; OPENCL;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84899733771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPSW.2013.112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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