GPU graphics cards



Accelerating a three-dimensional finite-difference wave propagation code using GPU graphics cards

FREE-DOWNLOADD Michéa… – Geophysical Journal International, 2010 . it requires 700 MB of memory on the GPU to store the model and all the finite-difference arrays;
with . code running on one CPU core and 177 s for the GPU code running on one GPU. It is uneasy
to define the acceleration factor, also called ‘speedup’, that one can get by resorting