@article {480, title = {Simulating active membrane systems using GPUs}, journal = {10th Workshop on Membrane Computing}, year = {2009}, month = {24-27/08/2009}, pages = {369-384}, publisher = {Marpapublicidad}, address = {Curtea de Arges, Rumania}, abstract = {Software development for cellular computing is growing up yielding new applications. In this paper, we describe a simulator for the class of recognizer P systems with active membranes, which exploits the massively parallel nature of P systems computations by using GPUs (Graphics Processing Units). The newest generation of GPUs provide a massively parallel framework to compute general purpose computations. We present GPUs as an alternative to obtain better performance in the simulation of P systems and we illustrate it by giving a solution to the N-Queens problem as an example.}, url = {http://www.gcn.us.es/?q=procwmc10}, author = {Miguel A. Mart{\'\i}nez-del-Amor and Ignacio P{\'e}rez-Hurtado and Mario J. P{\'e}rez-Jim{\'e}nez and Jos{\'e} M. Cecilia and Gin{\'e}s D. Guerrero and Jos{\'e} M. Garc{\'\i}a}, editor = {Gheorghe Paun and Mario J. P{\'e}rez-Jim{\'e}nez and Agust{\'\i}n Riscos-N{\'u}{\~n}ez} }