“…These make GPUs more effective than a massively parallel system built from commodity central processing units (CPUs). Usage of GPUs has been applied very successfully to deal with numerous computational problems in various domains, for instance, porting marine ecosystem model spin-up using transport matrices to GPUs (Siewertsen et al, 2013), GPU-accelerated long-wave radiation scheme of the rapid radiative transfer model for general circulation (RRTMG) models (Price et al, 2014), advances in multi-GPU smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations (Rustico et al, 2014), speeding up the computation of WRF double moment 6-class microphysics scheme with GPU (Mielikainen et al, 2013), real-time implementation of the pixel purity index algorithm for end-member identification on GPUs (Wu et al, 2014), fat vs. thin threading approach on GPUs: application to stochastic simulation of chemical reactions (Klingbeil et al, 2012), ASAMgpu V1.0 -a moist fully compressible atmospheric model using GPUs (Horn, 2012), GPU acceleration of predictive partitioned vector quantization for ultra-spectral sounder data compression (Wei, 2011), clusters vs. GPUs for parallel automatic target detection in remotely sensed hyperspectral images (Paz et al, 2010), and a GPUaccelerated wavelet decompression system with set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) and Reed-Solomon decoding for satellite images (Song et al, 2011), to name several.…”