THE FUTURE OF PARALLEL COMPUTING: GPU VS CELL - General Purpose Planning against Fast Graphical Computation Architectures, which is the Best Solution for General Purposes Computation?

Luca Bianchi, Riccardo Gatti, Luca Lombardi

2008

Abstract

Complex models require high performance computing (HPC) which means Parallel Computing. That is a fact. The question we try to address in this paper is "which is the best suitable solution for HPC contexts such as rendering? Will it be possible to use it in General Purpose elaborations?" We start from these questions and analyze two different approaches, IBM CELL and the well known GPGPU, showing how changing our minds and breaking some assumptions can lead to unexpected results and open a whole set of new possibilities. We talk about rendering, but quickly move slightly towards general purpose computation, because many algorithms used in Visual Simulations are not only referred to rendering issues but to a wider range of problems.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bianchi L., Gatti R. and Lombardi L. (2008). THE FUTURE OF PARALLEL COMPUTING: GPU VS CELL - General Purpose Planning against Fast Graphical Computation Architectures, which is the Best Solution for General Purposes Computation? . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-20-3, pages 419-425. DOI: 10.5220/0001099904190425

in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp08,
author={Luca Bianchi and Riccardo Gatti and Luca Lombardi},
title={THE FUTURE OF PARALLEL COMPUTING: GPU VS CELL - General Purpose Planning against Fast Graphical Computation Architectures, which is the Best Solution for General Purposes Computation?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={419-425},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001099904190425},
isbn={978-989-8111-20-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)
TI - THE FUTURE OF PARALLEL COMPUTING: GPU VS CELL - General Purpose Planning against Fast Graphical Computation Architectures, which is the Best Solution for General Purposes Computation?
SN - 978-989-8111-20-3
AU - Bianchi L.
AU - Gatti R.
AU - Lombardi L.
PY - 2008
SP - 419
EP - 425
DO - 10.5220/0001099904190425