Literature Review: High-Performance Computing By Advanced Stream Processing Using Graphics Hardware

Recent advance of the technologies incorporated in graphics hardware has enabled general-purpose computations on graphics hardware, which can further be used for high-performance computation in low cost. In addition, the graphical processing units (GPUs) on graphics hardware demonstrates a performance/cost ratio superior to central processing units (CPUs) with computations of high arithmetic intensity. There exist a number of works to enable stream processing on graphics hardware that has high-level programmability and efficiency. They include Brook [2], Cg [19], and Sh [21, 20]. This article is to review modern graphics hardware, stream processing architecture, how graphics hardware and stream architecture are related, and the related works to make use of stream processing capability of graphics hardware for general-purpose computing. It also proposes approach of this research.