ABSTRACT
Current GPUs have many times the memory bandwidth and computing power compared to CPUs. The difference in performance is getting bigger as the evolution speed of the GPUs is higher than of the CPUs. This make it interesting to use the GPU for general purpose computing (GPGPU). I begin by looking at the architecture of the GPU, and some different techniques for programming on a GPU, including some of the available high- level languages. I have implemented the Mandelbrot computation on a cluster of GPUs (the HPDC display wall), and compared it against two different CPU implementations on the cluster. I have also implemented the Mandelbrot computation in both Cg and Brook, and compared the performance of the two languages. My experimental study shows that the GPU implementation of the Mandelbrot application is up to twice as fast as the load- balanced CPU implementation on the cluster of 28 computers, and up to 6 times faster on one computer
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
CERTIFICATION
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ABSTRACT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
1.0INTRODUCTION
1.1BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
1.2STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
1.3PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
1.4SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
1.4AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
1.5SCOPE OF STUDY
1.6LIMITATIONS OF STUDY
1.7ASSUMPTIONS
1.8DEFINITION OF TERMS
CHAPTER TWO
2.0LITERATURE REVIEW
CHAPTER THREE
3.1DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF EXISTING SYSTEM
3.2FACT FINDING METHOD USED
3.3OBJECTIVES OF EXISTING SYSTEM
3.4ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE
3.5INPUT ANALYSIS
3.6OUTPUT ANALYSIS
3.7PROCESS ANALYSIS
3.8INFORMATION FLOW DIAGRAMS
3.9PROBLEMS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM
3.10JUSTIFICATION OF THE NEW SYSTEM
CHAPTER FOUR
4.1DESIGN OF THE NEW SYSTEM
4.2INPUT SPECIFICATION AND DESIGN
4.3FILE DESIGN
4.4OUTPUT SPECIFICATION
4.5PROCEDURE CHART
4.6SYSTEM FLOW CHART
4.7SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
5.1IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEW SYSTEM
5.2PROGRAM DESIGN
5.3PROGRAM FLOWCHART
5.4PSEUDO CODE
5.5SOURCE PROGRAM
5.6TEST DATA
5.7SAMPLE REPORT
5.8PROCEDURE FOR SYSTEM CONVERSION
6.0DOCUMENTATION
6.1SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION
6.2PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION
6.3USER DOCUMENTATION
CHAPTER FIVE
7.0SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
7.1SUMMARY
7.2CONCLUSION
7.3RECOMMENDATION
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