Solving a large scale radiosity problem on GPU-based parallel computers

DOI10.1016/J.CAM.2014.02.011MaRDI QIDQ2517421zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhiang Hu, Shi-Quan Su, Kwai Wong, Eduardo F. D'Azevedo

Publication date 26 August 2015

Published in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2014.02.011

zbMATH Keywords

Cholesky decompositionout-of-core algorithmradiosityhybrid multicore/GPU systemview factor calculation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Direct numerical methods for linear systems and matrix inversion (65F05) Parallel numerical computation (65Y05) Numerical solution of discretized equations for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M22) Numerical algorithms for specific classes of architectures (65Y10)

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• Communication-optimal parallel and sequential Cholesky decomposition
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• Fast GPU-based reuse of paths in radiosity
• On a special integral equation with an exponential parameter in the kernel
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Uses Software

• CULA
• PLASMA
• MAGMA
• SOLAR
• POOCLAPACK
• PLAPACK
• LINPACK
• ScaLAPACK

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