VT GPGPU

General Project Information

• Leader: John Walsh (TCD, Ireland)
• Mailing List: to be setup
• Status: Proposed
• Start Date: -
• End Date: start date + 6 months
• Meetings: -

Motivation

GPU computing or GPGPU is the use of a GPU (graphics processing unit) as a co-processor to accelerate CPUs for general purpose scientific and engineering computing. The GPU accelerates applications running on the CPU by offloading some of the compute-intensive and time consuming portions of the code. The rest of the application still runs on the CPU. From a user’s perspective, the application runs faster because it is using the massively parallel processing power of the GPU to boost performance. Experiments with the use of GPGPUs for scientific computing are already ongoing within various EGI institutions. This project aims to integrate these efforts from EGI partners, define and implement a roadmap to integrate GPGPU services into the European Grid Infrastructure for existing and potential EGI user communities.

Output

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Tasks

1. Collect requirements for GPGPU usage from generic and community-specific user support teams (VRCs, NGIs, VOs, projects)
2. Investigate how the collected requirements could be addressed on the production infrastructure (technologies, service configuration, policies)
3. Make a proposal for the introduction of new technologies, service configurations and policies to the production infrastructure
4. Implement the proposed technologies, configurations, policies onselected resources/VOs of EGI

Members

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Resources

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Progress

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