Abstract:

Computation based on graphics processing unit (GPU) has attracted increasing attention as a new research direction. As an introduction to the high performance of GPU, this paper first analyzes features of GPU as reported in the literature published in the recent years. Computation model of GPU is introduced, and pipeline structure analyzed. Programming on GPU is then discussed. Computation of lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) on GPU is implemented.

Key words: graphics hardware; graphics processing unit (GPU); graphics pipeline; Cg