Artificial Intelligence Events
HPSG Speaker: Professor Mike Giles, University of Oxford
Date
7th April 2010, Time CS1.01, 14:00
Speaker
Professor Mike Giles, University of Oxford
Professor of Scientific Computing, Member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, Associate Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre
Title
A Framework for Parallel Unstructured Grid Applications on GPUs
Abstract
In this talk I will discuss work-in-progress to develop a high-level framework for the massively-parallel execution of unstructured grid applications on many-core GPUs. The key is a suitable high-level abstraction in which the user specifies the inherent parallelism through what appears to be a sequence of library function calls. These are parsed by a pre-processor to automatically generate the CUDA code which will execute on NVIDIA GPUs with up to 512 cores.
This work is currently being supported by Rolls-Royce and BAE Systems, and additional funding will hopefully come soon from EPSRC through a collaboration with Professor Paul Kelly at Imperial College, London. Longer-term we hope that more people will participate in this open-source project, either as developers or as users.