Jones, William R
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Audience: Undergraduate. -- Dissertation: Thesis (B. A.). -- Algoma University, 2008. -- Submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirements for COSC 4235. -- Includes figures and tables. -- Contents: Thesis.
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the potential effects of offsetting different dataintensive, general purpose tasks to the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit). The focus will not be on whether or not improvements are attainable by using the GPU for general-purpose computations, as this is already a well-established fact. Instead, the focus will be on examining speed increases attainable by this method, and on determining the effects of parallelization, work efficiency, and bank conflict avoidance on the improvements. As well, any other factors which can contribute to, or hinder the speed at which these parallel computations can be done on the GPU will be discussed and analyzed.
