High-speed parallel processing on CUDA-enabled Graphics Processing Units

A new trend in computing is the use of multi-core processors and the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for general purpose high speed parallel computing. Therefore TNO wants to respond to the current trend of parallel computing and wants to investigate on which architectures they want to apply and parallelize their applications on. This thesis discusses the implementation of two applications used by TNO onto a CUDA-enabled GPU and a multi-core processor. The applications chosen for the implementation are object detection and ultrasound simulation (UMASIS). the development time and performance gain were measured during the implementation of both case. With these measurements an estimation of future projects can be made.Microelectronics & Computer EngineeringElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc