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Lightning

Lightning: Fast data processing using GPUs on distributed platforms

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DOI:

10.5281/zenodo.6281459

Description

  • Data processing using GPUs on distributed platforms
  • Program a cluster of GPUs just like programming a single GPU
  • Multi-GPU execution of existing CUDA kernels with minimal effort
  • Focus on scalability and efficiency

Lightning is a framwork for fast data processing using GPUs on distributed platforms. The framework enables distributed multi-GPU execution of compute kernels written in CUDA in a way that resembles programming CUDA using a single GPU. This enables scaling existing CUDA kernels to much larger problems size, far beyond the memory capacity and compute capabilities of a single GPU.

Keywords
Big data
GPU
High performance computing
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Netherlands eScience Center

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Stijn Heldens
Ben van Werkhoven
Stijn Heldens
Stijn Heldens