| dc.contributor.author | Gibson, Mike | |
| dc.contributor.author | Keedwell, Edward | |
| dc.contributor.author | Savic, Dragan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-04-02T11:44:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-11-15 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Cellular automata (CA) have proven to be excellent tools for the simulation of a wide variety of phenomena in the natural world. They are ideal candidates for acceleration with modern general purpose-graphical processing units (GPU/GPGPU) hardware that consists of large numbers of small, tightly-coupled processors. In this study the potential for speeding up CA execution using multi-core CPUs and GPUs is investigated and the scalability of doing so with respect to standard CA parameters such as lattice and neighbourhood sizes, number of states and generations is determined. Additionally the impact of ‘Activity’ (the number of ‘alive’ cells) within a given CA simulation is investigated in terms of both varying the random initial distribution levels of ‘alive’ cells, and via the use of novel state transition rules; where a change in the dynamics of these rules (i.e. the number of states) allows for the investigation of the variable complexity within. | en_GB |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 77, pp. 11-25 | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jpdc.2014.10.011 | |
| dc.identifier.grantnumber | EP/H015736/1 | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/16664 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
| dc.subject | Cellular automata (CA) | en_GB |
| dc.subject | General purpose graphic processing unit (GPGPU) | en_GB |
| dc.subject | OpenCL | en_GB |
| dc.subject | Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) | en_GB |
| dc.subject | Single Instruction Multiple Thread (SIMT) | en_GB |
| dc.subject | OpenMP | en_GB |
| dc.title | An investigation of the efficient implementation of Cellular Automata on multi-core CPU and GPU hardware | en_GB |
| dc.type | Article | en_GB |
| dc.date.available | 2015-04-02T11:44:25Z | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0743-7315 | |
| dc.description | Copyright © 2015 Elsevier. NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing . Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing Vol. 77 (2015), DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2014.10.011 | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.journal | Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing | en_GB |
