Simulation of cellular automata on graphics processing units

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Chitpaseuth Somphet.
• مؤلفون آخرون: Cai Wentong
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2012
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Computer graphics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48803
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Game of Life is a simple version of Cellular Automata which evolves from the ini- tial state and stops at a stable state when there is no further evolution. Flocking which depicts a behavior of a group of birds. CPU are not suitable for simulating a large size of data, because limitation of processing power. In this project, graphic processing unit (GPU) is proposed as an alternative com- puting architecture to address the problem. NVIDIA CUDA was used as a main language to develop a simulation program. Game of Life and Flocking simulation were written and executed to compare their executing time.