You are cordially invited by the COE/ICS, to attend a Graduate Seminar, on the above given title, by Mr. Rashad Ahmed, Ph.D Student, College of Computer Science & Engineering, on Tuesday, 16th April, 2013, at 02:30 PM, in Building 22, Room 132.
Abstract: GPU (Graphics Processor Unit) has been applied extensively in various scientific and engineering domains. With the growing interest in GPU programming and due to the lack of explicit support for inter-block synchronization within the GPUs, synchronization becomes an important aspect and it has become more and more necessary to minimize inter-block communication time. In this seminar, we evaluate and analyze the performance of three synchronization approaches found in literature. The three approaches are applied to the reduction problem to see how much synchronization time is required by these approaches and to study the scalability aspects of these approaches. Experiments show that Lock-free approach outperforms other approaches.
About the speaker: Mr. Rashad Ahmed has received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from Al-Mustansiriya University, Iraq, in 2002 and M.Sc degrees in Computer Science from KFUPM. He joined KFUPM as Lecrurer-B in 2012. His research interests are in the area of Information Retrieval.