Parallel computing can offer an enormous advantage regarding the performance for very large applications in almost any field: economics, scientific computing, computer vision, databases, data mining. GPUs are high performance many-core processors that can obtain very high FLOP rates. Since the...

Nowadays, the paradigm of parallel computing is changing. CUDA is now a popular programming model for general purpose computations on GPUs and a great number of applications were ported to CUDA obtaining speedups of orders of magnitude comparing to optimized CPU implementations. Hybrid...