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On the utility of graphics cards to perform massively parallel simulation of advanced Monte Carlo methods (2010)
| Venue: | Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics |
| Citations: | 74 - 11 self |
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@ARTICLE{Lee10onthe,
author = {Anthony Lee and Christopher Yau and Michael B. Giles and Arnaud Doucet and Christopher C. Holmes},
title = {On the utility of graphics cards to perform massively parallel simulation of advanced Monte Carlo methods},
journal = {Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics},
year = {2010},
pages = {769--789}
}
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Abstract
We present a case-study on the utility of graphics cards to perform massively parallel simulation of advanced Monte Carlo methods. Graphics cards, containing multiple Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), are self-contained parallel computational devices that can be housed in conventional desktop and laptop computers. For certain classes of Monte Carlo algorithms they offer massively parallel simulation, with the added advantage over conventional distributed multi-core processors that they are cheap, easily accessible, easy to maintain, easy to code, dedicated local devices with low power consumption. On a canonical set of stochastic simulation examples including population-based Markov chain Monte Carlo methods and Sequential Monte Carlo methods, we find speedups from 35 to 500 fold over conventional single-threaded computer code. Our findings suggest that GPUs have the potential to facilitate the growth of statistical modelling into complex data rich domains through the availability of cheap and accessible many-core computation. We believe the speedup we observe should motivate wider
Keyphrases
parallel simulation graphic card advanced monte carlo method accessible many-core computation monte carlo local device conventional single-threaded computer code multiple graphic processing unit conventional distributed multi-core processor added advantage stochastic simulation example complex data rich self-contained parallel computational device conventional desktop certain class laptop computer low power consumption sequential monte carlo method canonical set
