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Performance And Power Comparisons Between Fermi And Cypress Gpus, Ying Zhang
Performance And Power Comparisons Between Fermi And Cypress Gpus, Ying Zhang
LSU Master's Theses
In recent years, modern graphics processing units have been widely adopted in high performance computing areas to solve large scale computation problems. The leading GPU manufacturers Nvidia and AMD have introduced series of products to the market. While sharing many similar design concepts, GPUs from these two manufacturers differ in several aspects on processor cores and the memory subsystem. In this work, we conduct a comprehensive study to characterize and compare the architectural features of Nvidia’s Fermi and AMD’s Cypress GPUs. We first investigate the performance and power consumptions of an AMD Cypress GPU. By employing a rigorous statistical model …
Gpu Acceleration Of The Variational Monte Carlo Method For Many Body Physics, Kaushik Ragavan Rajagopalan
Gpu Acceleration Of The Variational Monte Carlo Method For Many Body Physics, Kaushik Ragavan Rajagopalan
LSU Master's Theses
High-Performance computing is one of the major areas making inroads into the future for large-scale simulation. Applications such as 3D nuclear test, Molecular Dynamics, and Quantum Monte Carlo simulations are now developed on supercomputers using the latest computing technologies. As per the TOP500 supercomputers rating, most of today‘s supercomputers are now heterogeneous: with massively parallel Graphics Processing Units (GPU) equipped with Multi-core CPU(s) to increase the computational capacity. The Variational Monte Carlo(VMC) method is used in the Many Body Physics to study the ground state properties of a system. The wavefunction depends on some variational parameters, which contain the physics …
Power Management And Optimization, Hari Sundararajan
Power Management And Optimization, Hari Sundararajan
LSU Master's Theses
After many years of focusing on “faster” computers, people have started taking notice of the fact that the race for “speed” has had the unfortunate side effect of increasing the total power consumed, thereby increasing the total cost of ownership of these machines. The heat produced has required expensive cooling facilities. As a result, it is difficult to ignore the growing trend of “Green Computing,” which is defined by San Murugesan as “the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems – such as monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communication systems …