Unleashing CPU-GPU acceleration for control theory applications

  • Authors:
  • Peter Benner;Pablo Ezzatti;Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí;Alfredo Remón

  • Affiliations:
  • Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany;Instituto de Computación, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay;Dpto. de Ingeniería y Ciencia de Computadores, Universidad Jaume I, Castellón, Spain;Dpto. de Ingeniería y Ciencia de Computadores, Universidad Jaume I, Castellón, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Euro-Par'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Parallel processing workshops
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper we review the effect of two high-performance techniques for the solution of matrix equations arising in control theory applications on CPU-GPU platforms, in particular advanced optimization via look-ahead and iterative refinement. Our experimental evaluation on the last GPU-generation from NVIDIA, "Kepler", shows the slight advantage of matrix inversion via Gauss-Jordan elimination, when combined with look-ahead, over the traditional LU-based procedure, as well as the clear benefits of using mixed precision and iterative refinement for the solution of Lyapunov equations.