This article presents ways to implement a resource-consuming algorithm on hardware with a limited amount of memory, which is the GPU. Numerical integration for higher-order finite element approximation was chosen as an example algorithm. To perform compu- tational tests, we use a non-linear geometric element and solve the convection-diffusion- reaction problem. For calculations, a Tesla K20m graphics card based on Kepler archi- tecture and Radeon r9 280X based on Tahiti XT architecture were used. The results of computational experiments were compared with the theoretical performance of both GPUs, which allowed an assessment of actual performance. Our research gives sugges- tions for choosing the optimal design of algorithms as well as the right hardware for such a resource-demanding task.
The embedded systems are increasingly becoming a key technological component of all kinds of complex technical systems and an exhaustive analysis of the state of the art of all current performance with respect to architectures, design methodologies, test and applications could be very interesting. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), based on the well-known algorithm Rijndael, is designed to be easily implemented in hardware and software platforms. General purpose computing on graphics processing unit (GPGPU) is an alternative to recongurable accelerators based on FPGA devices. This paper presents a direct comparison between FPGA and GPU used as accelerators for the AES cipher. The results achieved on both platforms and their analysis has been compared to several others in order to establish which device is best at playing the role of hardware accelerator by each solution showing interesting considerations in terms of throughput, speedup factor, and resource usage. This analysis suggests that, while hardware design on FPGA remains the natural choice for consumer-product design, GPUs are nowadays the preferable choice for PC based accelerators, especially when the processing routines are highly parallelizable.
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