图形处理器用于通用计算的技术_现状及其挑战.pdfVIP

1000-9825/2004/15(10) 1493 ©2004 Journal of Software 软 件 学 报 Vol.15, No. 10 图形处理器用于通用计算的技术、现状及其挑战 吴恩华1,2+ 1( 中国科学院 软件研究所 计算机科学重点实验室,北京 100080) 2(澳门大学 科技学院 电脑与资讯科学系,澳门) State of the Art and Future Challenge on General Purpose Computation by Graphics Processing Unit WU En-Hua1,2+ 1(Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China) 2(Department of Computer and Information Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau, China) + Corresponding author: Phn: +853-3974468, Fax: +853-831694, E-mail: ehwu@umac.mo, http://www.umac.mo Received and Accepted 2004-08-14 Wu EH. State of the art and future challenge on general purpose computation by graphics processing unit. Journal of Software, 2004,15(10):1493~1504. /1000-9825/15/ 1493.htm Abstract: Graphics processing unit (GPU) has been developing rapidly in recent years at a speed over Moor’s law, and as a result, various applications associated with computer graphics advance greatly. At the same time, the highly processing power, parallelism and programmability available nowadays on the contemporary GPU provide an ideal platform on which the general-purpose computation could be made. Starting from an introduction to the development history and the architecture of GPU, the technical fundamentals of GPU are described in the paper. Then in the main part of the paper, the development of various applications on general purpose computation on GPU is introduced, and among those applications, fluid dynamics, algebraic computation, database operations, and spectrum analysis are introduced in detail. The experience of our work on fluid dynamics has been also given, and the development of software tools in this area is introduced. Final