An Application Developed for Simulation of Electrical Excitation and Conduction in a 3D Human Heart

An Application Developed for Simulation of Electrical Excitation and Conduction in a 3D Human Heart

This thesis first reviews the history of General Purpose computing Graphic Processing Unit (GPGPU) and then introduces the fundamental problems that are suitable for GPGPU algorithm. The architecture of GPGPU is compared against modern CPU architecture, and the fundamental difference is outlined....

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Main Author: Yu, Di
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2013
Subjects:
Cellular Automata
CUDA
GPGPU
Parallel Algorithm
SIMD
Computer Sciences
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spelling ndltd-USF-oai-scholarcommons.usf.edu-etd-58172015-09-30T04:42:51Z An Application Developed for Simulation of Electrical Excitation and Conduction in a 3D Human Heart Yu, Di This thesis first reviews the history of General Purpose computing Graphic Processing Unit (GPGPU) and then introduces the fundamental problems that are suitable for GPGPU algorithm. The architecture of GPGPU is compared against modern CPU architecture, and the fundamental difference is outlined. The programming challenges faced by GPGPU and the techniques utilized to overcome these issues are evaluated and discussed. The second part of the thesis presents an application developed with GPGPU technology to simulate the electrical excitation and conduction in a 3D human heart model based on cellular automata model. The algorithm and implementation are discussed in detail and the performance of GPU is compared against CPU. 2013-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4620 http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5817&context=etd default Graduate Theses and Dissertations Scholar Commons Cellular Automata CUDA GPGPU Parallel Algorithm SIMD Computer Sciences
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topic Cellular Automata
CUDA
GPGPU
Parallel Algorithm
SIMD
Computer Sciences
spellingShingle Cellular Automata
CUDA
GPGPU
Parallel Algorithm
SIMD
Computer Sciences
Yu, Di
An Application Developed for Simulation of Electrical Excitation and Conduction in a 3D Human Heart
description This thesis first reviews the history of General Purpose computing Graphic Processing Unit (GPGPU) and then introduces the fundamental problems that are suitable for GPGPU algorithm. The architecture of GPGPU is compared against modern CPU architecture, and the fundamental difference is outlined. The programming challenges faced by GPGPU and the techniques utilized to overcome these issues are evaluated and discussed. The second part of the thesis presents an application developed with GPGPU technology to simulate the electrical excitation and conduction in a 3D human heart model based on cellular automata model. The algorithm and implementation are discussed in detail and the performance of GPU is compared against CPU.
author Yu, Di
author_facet Yu, Di
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title An Application Developed for Simulation of Electrical Excitation and Conduction in a 3D Human Heart
title_short An Application Developed for Simulation of Electrical Excitation and Conduction in a 3D Human Heart
title_full An Application Developed for Simulation of Electrical Excitation and Conduction in a 3D Human Heart
title_fullStr An Application Developed for Simulation of Electrical Excitation and Conduction in a 3D Human Heart
title_full_unstemmed An Application Developed for Simulation of Electrical Excitation and Conduction in a 3D Human Heart
title_sort application developed for simulation of electrical excitation and conduction in a 3d human heart
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