Simulation of P Systems with active membranes on CUDA | Research Group on Natural Computing

Title	Simulation of P Systems with active membranes on CUDA
Publication Type	Conference Contributions
Year of Publication	2009
Authors	Cecilia, J. M., Guerrero G. D., García J. M., Martínez-del-Amor M. A., Pérez-Hurtado I., & Pérez-Jiménez M. J.
Conference Name	2009 International Workshop on High Performance Computational Systems Biology
ISBN Number	978-0-7695-3809-9
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Place Published	Trento, Italy
Pages	61-71
Date Published	October 2009
Abstract	P systems or membrane systems provide a high level computational modeling framework that combines the structural and dynamic aspects of biological systems in a relevant and understandable way. P systems are massively parallel distributed, and non-deterministic systems. In this paper, we describe the implementation of a simulator for the class of recognizer P systems with active membranes by using the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit). We compare the high- performance parallel simulator for the GPU to the simulator developed on a single CPU (Central Processing Unit), and we show that the GPU is better suited than the CPU to simulate P systems due to its highly parallel nature.
URL	http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5298701&isnumber=5298664
Notes	Webpage of the conference: http://www.cosbi.eu/hibi09/
DOI	10.1109/HiBi.2009.13