ABSTRACT
Esra Neufeld Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society (IT’IS), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Maarten Paulides
Erasmus MC-Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Helmar Burkhart
Computer Science Department, University of Basel, Switzerland
Multi-and manycore as well as heterogeneous microarchitecture today play a major role in the hardware landscape. Specialized hardware, such as
commodity graphics processing units, have proven to be compute accelerators that are capable of solving specific scientific problems orders of magnitude faster than conventional CPUs.