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ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages 777-786Publisher
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
DOI: 10.1145/1015706.1015800
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programmable graphics hardware; data parallel computing; stream computing; GPU computing; Brook
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In this paper, we present Brook for GPUs, a system for general-purpose computation on programmable graphics hardware. Brook extends C to include simple data-parallel constructs, enabling the use of the GPU as a streaming coprocessor. We present a compiler and runtime system that abstracts and virtualizes many aspects of graphics hardware. In addition, we present an analysis of the effectiveness of the GPU as a compute engine compared to the CPU, to determine when the GPU can outperform the CPU for a particular algorithm. We evaluate our system with five applications, the SAXPY and SGEMV BLAS operators, image segmentation, FFT, and ray tracing. For these applications, we demonstrate that our Brook implementations perform comparably to hand-written GPU code and up to seven times faster than their CPU counterparts.
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