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Accelerated Numerical Processing API Based on GPU Technology

Award Information
Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Branch: N/A
Contract: NNX07CA23P
Agency Tracking Number: 066078
Amount: $99,996.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: S8.02
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2006
Award Year: 2007
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2007-01-19
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2007-07-23
Small Business Information
51 East Main Street Suite 201
Newark, DE 19711-4676
United States
DUNS: 071744143
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 John Humphrey
 Principal Investigator
 (302) 456-9003
 humphrey@emphotonics.com
Business Contact
 Eric Kelmelis
Title: Business Official
Phone: (302) 456-9003
Email: kelmelis@emphotonics.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The recent performance increases in graphics processing units (GPUs) have made graphics cards an attractive platform for implementing computationally intense applications. With their numerous parallel computational pipelines and SIMD architecture, modern GPUs can outperform high-end microprocessors by one to three orders of magnitude, depending on the problem. Most work to date at EM Photonics and elsewhere has focused on accelerating specific applications by porting core engines onto the GPU. In this project, we propose the development of general purpose computational libraries capable of solving numerous core numerical functions on commodity graphics cards. These solvers will be based on accepted, industry-standard interfaces and will be easy to integrate with current and future applications. The result will be a GPU-based numerical coprocessor capable accelerating a wide range of computationally intense functions, thereby reducing processing times in applications where numerical computations are the primary bottleneck.

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