GPU-ACCELERATED

APPLICATIONS
GPUACCELERATED
APPLICATIONS
Accelerated computing has revolutionized a
broad range of industries with over three hundred
applications optimized for GPUs to help you
accelerate your work.

CONTENTS

01 Computational Finance
02 Climate, Weather and Ocean Modeling
02 Data Science & Analytics
03 Defense and Intelligence
04 Deep Learning and Machine Learning
05 Manufacturing: CAD and CAE
COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS
COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURAL MECHANICS
DESIGN AND VISUALIZATION
ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION

09 Media and Entertainment

ANIMATION, MODELING AND RENDERING
COLOR CORRECTION AND GRAIN MANAGEMENT
COMPOSITING, FINISHING AND EFFECTS
EDITING
ENCODING AND DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION
ON-AIR GRAPHICS
ON-SET, REVIEW AND STEREO TOOLS
WEATHER GRAPHICS

13 Medical Imaging
13 Oil and Gas
14 Research: Higher Education and Supercomputing
COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY
NUMERICAL ANALYTICS
PHYSICS
SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION

21 Safety & Security

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Computational Finance
APPLICATION
Aon Benfield Pathwise Specialized platform for real-time hedging, Spreadsheet-like modeling interfaces,
Altimeshs Hybridizer C# Multi-target C# framework for data
Elsen Accelerated
Computing Engine (TM)
Global Valuation Esther
Hanweck Associates
MiAccLib 2.0.1
MISYS Global Risk
Murex MACS Analytics
Library
Numerical Algorithms
Group (NAG)
QuantAleas Alea.cuBase F# package enabling a growing set of F#
F#
RMS
SciComp, Inc
SunGard- Adaptiv
Analytics
Synerscope- Synerscope
Data Visualization
Tanay ZX Lib (Fuzzy
Logic)
Xcelerit SDK
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DESCRIPTION
valuation, pricing and risk management
parallel computing.
Secure, accessible, and accelerated back-
testing, scenario analysis, risk analytics
and real-time trading designed for easy
integration and rapid development.
In-memory risk analytics system for OTC
portfolios with a particular focus on XVA
metrics and balance sheet simulations.
Real-time options analytical engine
(Volera)
Accelerated libraries which encompasses
high speed multi-algorithm search
engines, data security engine and also
video analytics engines for text processing,
encryption/decryption and video
surveillance respectively.
Regulatory compliance and enterprise
wide risk transparency package
Analytics library for modeling valuation
and risk for derivatives across multiple
asset classes
Random number generators, Brownian
bridges, and PDE solvers
capability to run on a GPU
Catastrophic risk modeling for FSI
(earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorism,
infectuous diseases)
Derivative pricing (SciFinance)
A flexible and extensible engine for fast
calculations of a wide variety of pricing and
risk measures on a broad range of asset
classes and derivatives.
Visual big data exploration and insight
tools
Financial analytics and data mining library
Software Development Kit (SDK) to boost
the performance of Financial applications
(e.g. Monte-Carlo, Finite-difference) with
minimum changes to existing code.
SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT
Yes
Python-based scripting environment and
Grid middleware
C# with translation to GPU or Multi-Core Yes
Xeon
Web-like API with Native bindings for Yes
Python, R, Scala, C. Custom models and
data streams are easy to add
High quality models not admitting closed Yes
form solutions, efficient solvers based on
full matrix linear algebra powered by GPUs
and Monte Carlo algorithms.
Real-time options analytics engine Yes
Text Processing : Exact Match, Yes
Approximate\Similarity Text,
Wild Card, MultiKeyword and
MultiColumnMultiKeyword, etc
Data Security: Accelerated Encryption/
Description for AES-128
Vide Analytics: Accelerated Intrusion
Detection Algorithm
Risk analytics Yes
Market standard models for all asset Yes
classes paired with the most efficient
resolution methods (Monte Carlo
simulations and Partial Differential
Equations)
Monte Carlo and PDE solvers Single only
F# for GPU accelerators Yes
Risk analytics Yes
Monte Carlo and PDE pricing models Single only
Existing models code in C# supported Yes
transparently, with minimal code changes,
Supports multiple backends including
CUDA and OpenCL, Switches transparently
between multiple GPUs and CPUS
depending on the deal support and load
factors.
Graphical exploration of large network Single only
datasets including geo-spatial and
temporal components.
Monte Carlo simulations, pricing of vanilla Yes
and exotic options, fixed income analytics,
data mining.
C++ programming language, cross- Yes
platform (back-end generates CUDA and
optimized CPU code), supports Windows
and Linux operating systems.
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 Climate, Weather and Ocean Modeling
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION
* ACME-Atmosphere Global atmospheric model
* COSMO Regional numerical weather prediction and Radiation only
climate model
Data Science & Analytics
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION
BIDMach - UC Berkeley Fastest Big Data tools on the web.
Holds the records for many common
machine learning problems, on single
nodes or clusters.
Interactive environment for easily building
and deploying machine learning models.
Blazegraph GPU First and fastest GPU accelerated platform
for graph query. It provides drop-in
acceleration for existing RDF/Sparql and
Tinkerpop/ Blueprints graph applications.
It provides high-level graph database APIs
with transparent GPU acceleration for
graph query.
Blazegraph DASL It marries the power and speed of CUDA.
It delivers graph analytics at over 32 billion
traversed edges per second and easily
integrates with Spark and other data
management platforms.
GPUdb A distributed database for many core
devices.
GPUdb is a scalable, distributed database
with SQL-style query capability for Big
Data.
Full suite of geospatial calculation
capability.
* Gunrock Gunrock is a library for graph processing
on the GPU. Gunrock achieves a balance
between performance and expressiveness
by coupling high performance GPU
implementations with a high-level
programming model, that requires
minimal GPU programming knowledge.
Jedox Helps with portfolio analysis, management
consolidation, liquidity controlling, cash
flow statements, profit center accounting,
treasury management, customer value
analysis and many more applications, all
accessible in a powerful web and mobile
application or Excel environment.
MapD MapD is GPU-powered big data analytics
and visualization platform that is hundreds
of times faster than CPU in-memory
systems.
* Sqream DB GPU accelerated SQL database engine
for big data analytics. Sqream speeds
SQL analytics by 100X by translating SQL
queries into highly parallel algorithms run
on the GPU.
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SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT
Dynamics only Yes
Yes
SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT
Scala interface. Supports linear regression, Yes
logistic regression, SVM, LDA, K-Means
and other operations.
GPU-accelerated SPARQL graph query, Yes
Data Management using the RDF
interchange model, Tinkerpop/Blueprints
Graph Support, Billions of edges on a
single multi-GPU node, SaaS and Appliance
models available.
Scala-based graph analytic and machine Yes
learning application language, Ease of
integration into Spark and Hadoop data
ecosystems, Support for GPU cluster
deployment.
Query against Big Data in real time. Yes
No pre-indexing allows for complex, ad-hoc
query chains.
Interactively explore large, streaming data
sets.
Direction-optimizing BFS, SSSP, PageRank, Yes
Connected Components, Betweenness-
centrality
This database holds all relevant data in GPU Yes
memory and is thus an ideal application to
utilize the Tesla K40s 12 GB on-board RAM.
Scale that up with multiple GPUs and keep
close to 100 GB of compressed data in GPU
memory on a single server system for fast
analysis, reporting and planning.
MapD uses GPUs to execute SQL queries Yes
on multi-billion row datasets and optionally
render the results, all in milliseconds.
Up to 100TB of raw data can be stored and Yes
queried in a standard 2U server. Inserts
and analyzes hundreds of billions of
records in seconds. No indexes required.
No changes to SQL code or data science
paradigms required.
 Defense and Intelligence
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT

Comprimato JPEG2000
Codec
DigitalGlobe - Advanced
Ortho Series
Elcomsoft
Esri ArcGIS for Desktop
(ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro)
Spatial Analyst and 3D geodesic methods.
Analyst
Eternix - Blaze Terra
GeoWeb3d Desktop
GPUdb
Harris ENVI
* Herta Security -
BioSurveillance NEXT,
BioFinder
Intergraph Motion Video
Analyst
Intuvision Panoptes 3.0
LuciadLightspeed
Manifold Systems
MotionDSP - Ikena ISR
NerVve Visual Search
Solution (NVSS)
OpCoast SNEAK
PCI Geomatics GXL
Skyline Software -
Terrabuilder PhotoMesh
A high performing, GPU powered,
JPEG2000 encoder and decoder SDK
which can be integrated into almost any
application.
Geospatial visualization
High-performance distributed password
recovery software with NVIDIA GPU
acceleration and scalability to over 10,000
workstations.
Determines the raster surface locations
visible to a set of observer features, using
runs 3D sightlines to each transformed cell
Geospatial visualization
Geospatial visualization
Multi-GPU, Multi-Machine distributed
object store providing SQL style query
capability, advanced geospatial query
capability,heatmap generation, and
distributed rasterization services.
Image Processing and Analytics
Real time facial recognition and forensic
alerts against multiple watchlists.
Video filters and mosaic'ing - Geo-fuses
FMV analytics with intelligence data.
Video analytics
Geospatial visualization and analysis
Full-featured GIS, vector/raster processing
& analysis
Real-time full motion video (FMV) and
wide-area motion imagery (WAMI)
enhancement and computer-vision-based
analytics software for intelligence analysts
Video/Image Live and Forensic Search
Electromagnetic signals propagation
modeling for complex urban and terrain
environments.
Image processing
PhotoMesh integrates a GPU-based, fast
algorithm, able to automatically build
3D models from simple photographs.
PhotoMesh revolutionizes the use of
geospatial data by fully automating the
generation of high-resolution, textured, 3D
mesh models from standard 2D images.
Very large image processing, specific area Yes
decoding, multi resolution/quality decoding
supporting all GEOSPATIAL image formats.
(eg NITF, BIIF). Mobile and embedded
platform friendly.
Image orthorectification Yes
GPU acceleration for password recovery, Yes
10-100x speedup for password recovery.
Viewshed2 transforms the elevation surface Yes
into a geocentric 3D coordinate system and
center.
3D visualization of geospatial data Yes
3D visualization of geospatial data Yes
Query against big data in real time. Yes
No pre-indexing allows for complex, ad-hoc
query chains.
Interactively explore large, streaming data
sets.
Image orthorectification, Image Yes
transformation, atmospheric correction,
Panchromatic co-occurrence texture filter
Supports crowded scenes, difficult lighting, Yes
faster than real-time analysis, partial face
concealment.
Full motion video ortho mosaic processing, Single only
de-hazing algorithms.
Object recognition and change detection Yes
Geospatial situational awareness Single only
Manifold surface tools Yes
Real-time super-resolution-based video Yes
enhancement on live streams, geospatial
visualization, target detection and tracking,
and fast 2-D mapping
Video and image content search Yes
Ray tracing, DTED and remote sensing Yes
inputs.
Image orthorectification and additional Yes
image processing
3D model building from imagery; building Yes
texture generation.

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 SocetGXP - BAE Systems The Automatic Spatial Modeler (ASM) is
designed to generate 3-D point clouds
with accuracy similar to LiDAR, which
can extract 3-D objects from stereo
images. ASM can extract dense 3-D point
clouds from stereo images, and extract
accurate building edges and corners from
stereo images with high resolution, large
overlaps, and high dynamic range.
SynerScope Big data visualization and data discovery,
for combining Analytics on Analytics with
IoT compute-at-the-edge smart sensors.
Deep Learning and Machine Learning
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION
* BidMach GPU-accelerated classical machine
learning library
Caffe The Caffe deep learning framework makes
implementing state-of-the-art deep
learning easy.
Caffe* Parallel This is a faster framework for deep
learning, it's forked from BVLC/caffe
(master branch). This allows data-parallel
via MPI.
Clarifai Clarifai brings a new level of understanding
to visual content through deep learning
technologies. Clarifai uses GPUs to train
large neural networks to solve practical
problems in advertising, media, and search
across a wide variety of industries.
Chainer DL framework that makes the construction
of neural networks (NN) flexible and
intuitive.
* CNTK Microsofts Computational Network Toolkit
(CNTK) is a unified computational network
framework that describes deep neural
networks as a series of computational
steps via a directed graph.
Deeplearning4j Deeplearning4j is the most popular deep
learning framework for the JVM, and
includes all major neural nets such as
convolutional, recurrent (LSTMs) and
feedforward.
Dextro Dextro's API uses deep learning systems to Object and scene detection, Machine
analyze and categorize videos in real-time. transcription for audio
Motion and movement detection.
* IntelligentVoice Far more than a transcription tool, this
speech recognition software learns
what is important in a telephone call,
extracts information and stores a visual
representation of phone calls to be
combined with text/instant messaging and
E-mail. Intelligent Voice's search and alert
makes it possible to tackle issues before
they arise, address data security concerns
and monitor physical access to data.
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Automated 3D feature extraction Yes
Real-time Interaction with data Single only
SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT
Logistic regression, SVM, LDA, SFA, NMF, Yes
ICA, random forests, clustering, word2vec
Process over 40M images per day with a Single only
single NVIDIA K40 or Titan GPU.
Using the GPU cluster processing mass Yes
image data
GPU-based training and inference. Yes
Recognizes and indexes images with
predefined classifiers, or with custom
classifiers.
Dynamic NN construction, which makes Yes
debugging easier. CPU/GPU-agnostic
coding, which is promoted by CuPy, partially
NumPy-compatible multidimensional
array library for CUDA. Data-dependent
NN construction, which fully exploits the
control flows of Python without magic.
Supports many applications, including Yes
Speech Recognition, Machine Translation,
Image Recognition, Image Captioning,
Text Processing and Relevance, Language
Understanding, Language Modeling
Integrates with Hadoop and Spark to Yes
run distributed. Java and Scala APIs.
Composable framework that facilitates
building your own nets. Includes ND4J, the
Numpy for Java.
Yes
Advanced Speech Recognition across Yes
large data sets, JumpTo Technology,
for data visualisation, E-Discovery,
extraction from phone calls, IM & Email
defining key phrases and emotional
analysis. Compliance, defining key
conversations and interactions
 Labellio The world's easiest deep learning web
service for computer vision, which allows
everyone to build own image classifier with
only web browser.
* MatConvNet CNNs for MathWorks MATLAB, allows
you to use MATLAB GPU support natively
rather than writing your own CUDA code
MetaMind Provides a deep learning API for image
recognition and text sentiment analysis.
Uses either prebuilt, public, or custom
classifiers.
* Neon Neon is a fast, scalable, easy-to-use
Python based deep learning framework
that has been optimized down to the
assembler level. Neon features a rich set
of example and pre-trained models for
image, video, text, deep reinforcement
learning and speech applications.
Theano Theano is a symbolic expression compiler
that powers large-scale computationally
intensive scientific investigations.
* Tensorflow Googles TensorFlow is an open source
software library for numerical computation
using data flow graphs. Nodes in the
graph represent mathematical operations,
while the graph edges represent the
multidimensional data arrays (tensors)
communicated between them.
Torch7 Torch7 is an interactive development
environment for machine learning and
computer vision.
Trakomatic OSense, Video Analytics Solution for retail,
Otrack supermarkets, shopping mall and banking.
Neural net fine-tuning for image data, data Yes
crawling, data browsing as well as drag-
and-drop style data cleansing backed by AI
support.
Building Blocks, Simple CNN wrapper, Yes
DagNN wrapper, cuDNN implemented
GPU-based training and inference. Yes
Recognizes image and analyzes text,
creates and trains classifiers with tooling
for uploading and managing datasets.
Training, inference and deployment of Yes
deep learning models. Process over 442M
images per day on a Titan X
Abstract expression graphs for transparent Single only
GPU acceleration.
TensorFlow is flexible, portable and Yes
performant creating an open standard for
exchanging research ideas and putting
machine learning in products.
Computational back-ends for multicore Single only
GPUs.
People detection & tracking, Crowd density Yes
estimation, Gender classification and age
estimation, Person re-identification.

Manufacturing: CAD and CAE

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT

Altair AcuSolve General purpose CFD software Linear equation solver Yes

ANSYS - Fluent
Autodesk - Moldflow
* ANSYS - Polyflow
CPFD Barracuda-VR and
Barracuda
DHI - MIKE 21
DHI - MIKE FLOOD
FluiDyna aeroFluidX
FluiDyna - Culises for
OpenFOAM
FluiDyna nanoFluidX
FluiDyna ultraFluidX
General purpose CFD software Radiation heat transfer model, linear Yes
equation solver
Plastic mold injection software Linear equation solver Single only
CFD software for the analysis of polymer Direct Solvers Yes
and glass processing
Fluidized bed modeling software Linear equation solver, particle calculations Single only
2D hydrological modelling of coast and sea Hydrodynamics; Advection-dispersion; sand Yes
and mud transport; coupled modelling;
particle tracking; oil spill; ecological
modelling; agent based modelling; various
wave models.
1D & 2D urban, coastal, and riverine flood Hydrodynamics Yes
modelling
Incompressible single-phase CFD software Finite volume solver Yes
Solver library for general purpose CFD Linear equation solvers Yes
software
General purpose CFD software SPH solver Yes
General purpose CFD software Lattice-Boltzmann solver Yes

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 midas NFX(CFD) General purpose CFD software based on Linear equation solver (Iterative Solver and Single only
FEM AMG Preconditioner)
* Numeca Fine/ Turbo software producta Multi-grid solver Yes
structured, multi-block, multi-grid CFD
solver targeting the turbo machinery
industry
Prometech - Particle-based CFD software Implicit and explicit solvers Yes
Particleworks
Turbostream Ltd. CFD software for turbomachinery flows Explicit solver Yes
Vratis Speed IT FLOW Incompressible single-phase CFD software Finite volume solver Single only
Vratis SpeedIT for Solver library for general purpose CFD Linear equation solvers Yes
OpenFOAM software

Research CFD Developments

APPLICATION DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT

DualSPHysics SPH-based CFD software SPH model Yes

FEFLO (GMU - Lohner) General purpose CFD software for Implicit and explicit solver Yes
compressible and incompressible flows
GIN3D (Boise St - General purpose CFD software for Implicit solver Yes
Senocak) incompressible flows
HiFiLES (Stanford - General purpose CFD software for Explicit solver Yes
Jameson) compressible flows.
HiPSTAR (University CFD software for compressible reacting Explicit solver Yes
of Southampton - flows
Sandberg)
JENRE, Propel (NRL) CFD software for compressible flows Explicit solver Yes
NASA FUN3D General purpose CFD software Linear equation solver Single only
PyFR (Imperial College - General purpose CFD software for High-order FR solver Yes
Vincent) compressible flows.
S3D (Sandia and Oak Direct numerical solver (DNS) for turbulent Chemistry model Yes
Ridge NL) combustion

COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURAL MECHANICS

APPLICATION DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT

Altair OptiStruct Industry proven, modern structural Direct and iterative solvers Yes
analysis solver and solution for structural
design and optimization.
Altair RADIOSS Implicit Simulation and analysis tool for structural Direct and iterative solvers Yes
mechanics
ANSYS - Mechanical Simulation and analysis tool for structural Direct and iterative solvers Yes
mechanics
Dassault Systmes Simulation and analysis tool for structural Direct sparse solver Yes
SIMULIA Abaqus/ mechanics
Standard
Dassault Systmes Realistic simulation solution (Uses Abaqus Direct sparse solver Single only
SIMULIA 3DEXPERIENCE Standard for GPU computing).
Impetus Afea Predicts large deformations of structures Non-linear Explicit Finite-Element Solver Yes
and components exposed to extreme
loading conditions.
LS-DYNA Implicit Simulation and analysis tool for structural Linear equation solver Yes
mechanics
midas GTS NX Simulation tool for geo-technical analysis Linear equation solver(Multi Frontal Solver) Single only
midas NFX(Structural) Simulation and analysis tool for structural Linear equation solver(Multi Frontal Solver) Single only
mechanics
MSC - Marc Simulation and analysis tool for structural Direct sparse solver Yes
mechanics
MSC Nastran Simulation and analysis tool for structural Direct sparse solver Yes
mechanics

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 Rocky DEM Discrete Element Modeling (DEM)-based
particle simulation software.
Siemens NX Nastran Simulation and analysis tool for structural
mechanics.
DESIGN AND VISUALIZATION
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION
Allegorithmic Substance Material shader edition, market reference
Designer for procedural texture creation.
* Allegorithmic Substance Intuitive interactive 3D painting software
Painter with physics and particle support.
Autodesk - AutoCAD 2D and 3D CAD design, drafting, modeling,
architectural drawing, and engineering
software. Supports Open GL. Native
DWG support.
Autodesk - AutoCAD AutoCAD 2014 software, plus tools to
Design Suite create, capture, connect, and showcase
designs.
Autodesk - 3ds Max 3D animation creative toolset for modeling,
animation, simulation, and rendering for
product and building designs.
Autodesk - Inventor 3D mechanical design, documentation, and
product simulation.
Autodesk - Revit Building Information Modeling (BIM)
for architecture, engineering, and
construction.
Chaos Group - V-Ray RT GPU renderer
* Cast Software - The WYSIWYG software products,
WYSIWYG designed specifically for lighting
professionals, offers a range of solutions
to meet the needs of designers,
assistants, electricians, console operators,
teachers, and students.
Dassault Systmes - Accelerated UI rendering
CATIA
Dassault Systmes - Realistic 3D Rendering on full CATIA 3D
CATIA Live Rendering CAD model
Dassault Systmes - Redefines high-end 3D visualization and
3DEXCITE DeltaGen realtime interaction. This latest version
gives users a broad suite of robust new
features to truly revolutionize processes
and help increase visual quality, speed, and
flexibility.
Dassault Systmes - Covers all aspects of product development
SOLIDWORKS process with a seamless, integrated
workflowdesign, verification, sustainable
design, communication and data
management.
* Dassault Systmes Easy to use photorealistic rendering
SOLIDWORKS Visualize software
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Explicit DEM solver (dry/sticky contact Single only
rheologies), 1-way & 2-way coupling with
ANSYS Fluent and ANSYS Mechanical.
Linear equation solver Single only
SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT
Iray rendering including textures/ Yes
substances and bitmap texture export to
render in any Iray powered compatible with
MDL.
Iray rendering to enhance all artwork Yes
released with the software
Surface, mesh, and solid modeling tools, Single only
model documentation tools, parametric
drawing capabilities. Native DWG support.
GRID Support.
2D/3D display of designs, interactive 3D Single only
presentation with realistic materials,
rendering-ray tracing.
3D modeling, mesh and surface modeling, Yes
improved Nitrous viewport performance,
iray rendering.
Uses BIM for intelligent building Single only
components to improve design accuracy.
Modeling (BIM) to design, build, and Single only
maintain higher-quality, more energy-
efficient buildings. GRID support.
CUDA interactive GPU rendering Yes
The speed of wysiwygs Shaded Views Yes
depends entirely on GPU, the GPU will
have an easier time rendering ten risers
consolidated into one Mesh, than rendering
them as individual risers, Wysiwys also
support NVIDIA SLI technologies.
Full OpenGL implementation including Single only
menus and dialog box.
Physically Based Rendering with no data Yes + NVIDIA
preparation thanks to native NVIDIA Iray Quadro VCA
Photoreal integration integration and
interactive realistic rendering using NVIDIA
Iray IRT.
Interactive ray tracing and global Yes
illumination. Integration with Siemens
TeamCenter. Cluster support Realtime
& Offline Production Process Integration
and scene building. Scene Analysis, Xplore
DeltaGen, SDK for DeltaGen.
High performance in Shaded, Shaded Single only
w/ Edges, and RealView modes, FSAA
for sharp edges, Order Independent
Transparency
Real time photorealistic renderings with
SOLIDWORKS Visualize, an Iray-based
application.
Iray-based ray-tracing, animation support, Yes + NVIDIA
network rendering. Quadro VCA
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 NVIDIA Iray A ready-to-integrate, physically-based,
photorealistic rendering solution.
Otoy - Octane Render GPU renderer
PTC Creo Parametric Parametric design solution suite.
Siemens PLM Software Product lifecycle management solutions
NX and Teamcenter from design to simulation to production to
service.
* Top Systems T-FLEX CAD 3D and 2D parametric design, simulation,
photorealistic rendering
* VRED VRED 3D visualization software helps
automotive designers and engineers create
product presentations, design reviews, and
virtual prototypes. Use Digital Prototyping
to quickly visualize ideas and evaluate
designs.
Iray Interactive; Iray Photoreal; Iray Cluster. Yes
Fast interactive ray tracing; Physically-
based, global-illumination rendering;
Distributed cluster rendering.
GPU rendering Yes
Anti-aliasing, better lighting and enhanced Single only
shaded-with-edges mode. Immersive
design environment with realistic
materials. GRID Support.
Design software, NX, and PLM viewer Single only
applications, TcVis and Active Workspace.
GRID support.
High performance visualization, real time Yes
photorealistic rendering
Enhanced geometry behavior, Automotive Yes
product interoperability, Navigation in
a scene, Import Alias layer structure,
Asset Manager improvements, Integrated
file converter, Analytic rendering
modes, Gap Analysis tool, Oculus Rift
support, Animation module, Multiple
rendering modes, Subsurface scattering,
Displacement mapping

ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION

APPLICATION DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT

Altair FEKO 3D EM modeling and simulation FDTD solver MoM solver Yes
ANSYS - HFSS Simulation tool for modeling 3-D full-wave Transient solver Yes
electromagnetic fields in high-frequency
and high-speed electronic components.
ANSYS - Nexxim Circuit simulation engine for RF/analog/ AMI analysis Single only
mixed-signal IC design; IBIS-AMI analysis
speedup with GPU computing.
CST STUDIO SUITE 3D Electromagnetic modeling and Several different solvers Yes
simulation
D2S TrueMask GPGPU-based computational lithography Simulation and data preparation for Mask Yes
acceleration technology. Writing, Geometric manipulation of large
semiconductor design & manufacturing
data, eBeam, Mask Process, and
lithography aerial image Simulation, image
processing.
Delcross- Savant Simulation tool for installed antenna High-frequency solver Yes
performance and antenna-to-antenna
coupling.
JMAG FEA software for electromechanical EM transient solver Yes
design. Fast solver / High quality mesh / EM time harmonic solver
Advanced modeling technologies. EM static solver
KeySight - ADS Simulation tool for design of RF, Transient Convolution simulation with Single only
microwave and high speed digital circuits. BSIM4 models
KeySight - EMPro Modeling and simulation environment for FDTD solver Yes
analyzing 3D EM effects of high speed and
RF/Microwave components.
Remcom - XFdtd 3D EM modeling and simulation FDTD solver Yes
Rocketick - RocketSim Verilog simulation Verilog simulation Yes
SPEAG - SEMCAD-X 3D EM modeling and simulation FDTD solver Yes

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 Media and Entertainment
ANIMATION, MODELING AND RENDERING
APPLICATION
3DAliens- Glu3d
AAA Studio - FurryBall
Autodesk - 3ds Max +
NVIDIA iray
Autodesk - Maya
Autodesk - Motion
Builder
Autodesk - Mudbox
Blastcode - Kilton/
Megaton
Cebas - moskitoRender
Chaos Group - V-Ray RT
Jawset - TurbulenceFD
Maxon - Cinema 4D
NewTek - Lightwave
Otoy - Octane Render
Pixologic - Sculptris
Redshift - Renderer
Side Effects - Houdini
The Foundry - Mari
The Foundry - Modo
COLOR CORRECTION AND GRAIN MANAGEMENT
APPLICATION
Adobe - SpeedGrade CC
ARRI - RAW Converter
Assimilate - Scratch
Blackmagic Design -
DaVinci Resolve
Canon - Cinema RAW
SDK
Cinnafilm - Dark Energy
Digital Vision - Nucoda
* Fastvideo - Fast
CinemaDNG Processor
Fastvideo - GPU Debayer
Filmlight - Baselight
Marquise Technologies
- Rain
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DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT
SPH fluid simulation Faster simulation Single only
GPU renderer CUDA and DirectX GPU rendering Single only
3D modeling, animation, and rendering Iray interactive, photorealistic and Yes
physically correct rendering
3D modeling, animation, and rendering Increased model complexity, larger scenes Yes
Character animation and motion capture Increased model complexity at interactive Single only
rates
3D sculpting Increased model complexity at interactive Single only
rates
Physics-based simulation plug in Faster simulation Single only
GPU renderer CUDA-based GPU rendering Yes
GPU renderer CUDA interactive GPU rendering Yes
Physics-based simulation plug-in Maximus supported GPU simulation using Single only
CUDA
3D modeling, animation, and rendering Increased model complexity at interactive Single only
rates
3D modeling, animation, and rendering Increased model complexity at interactive Single only
rates
GPU renderer GPU rendering Yes
3D sculpting Increased model complexity at interactive Single only
rates
GPU-accelerated, biased renderer CUDA-based GPU final-frame rendering Yes
3D modeling, animation, and rendering Maximus supported GPU simulation using Single only
OpenCL
3D paint Increased model complexity at interactive Single only
rates
3D modeling, animation and rendering Increased model complexity, larger scenes Single only
DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT
Color grading Real-time grading and finishing with Single only
Lumetri Deep Color Engine.
RAW de-Bayering and primary color CUDA-accelerated de-bayering and grading Single only
grading
Color grading and finishing Accelerated debayering for real-time digital Single only
finishing
Color grading and editing Real-time color correction and de-noising Yes
RAW de-bayering GPU-accelerated de-bayering Single only
Application and plug-in for image Image de-noising and restoration Yes
enhancement
Color grading De-bayering for color correction Single only
RAW video debayering, denoising and color Full-sized video processing and playback in Yes
correction completely on GPU side realtime, 4K, 6K, and 8K supported
High performance GPU debayer High performance debayer on CUDA Yes
Color grading Real-time color correction Yes
Color grading CUDA-based real-time color correction Single only
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 Red Digital Cinema - Primary color grading CUDA-accelerated de-bayering and grading Single only
REDCINE-X PRO
Red Giant - Magic Bullet Color and finishing tools Faster effects Single only
Looks
Snell Advanced Media - Color grading and finishing Real time color correction Yes
Pablo Rio
SGO - Mistika Color grading and finishing Real-time color correction and finishing Single only
The Foundry - Color grading Accelerated color grading Single only
COLORWAY
The Pixel Farm PFClean Image restoration and remastering CUDA-based image processing acceleration Single only
Wavelet Beam - Grain Video noise reduction CUDA-accelerated grain and noise Yes
and Noise Reducer reduction

COMPOSITING, FINISHING AND EFFECTS

APPLICATION DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT

Adobe - After Effects CC Motion graphics and effects 3D ray tracing engine based on NVIDIA Yes
OptiX
Autodesk - Flame Finishing and color grading Integrated toolset for 3D VFX, editorial, and Yes
Premium color grading
Blackmagic Design - Effects and compositing Faster effects Single only
Fusion
Boris FX - Continuum Visual effects plug-in Faster effects Single only
Complete
CoreMelt - Complete Visual effects plug-in Faster effects Single only
GenArts - Monsters GT Visual effects plug-in Faster effects Single only
GenArts - Sapphire Visual effects plug-in Faster effects Single only
Neat Video - Open FX Video noise reduction plug-in Faster effects Single only
NewBlueFX - Video Video effects plug-in Faster effects Single only
Essentials
Pixelan - FilmTouch Video effects plug-in Faster effects Single only
Re:Vision Effects - Visual effects plug-in Faster effects Single only
Twixtor
Red Giant - Effects Suite Visual effects plug-in Faster effects Single only
ROBUSKEY Chroma keyer plug-in Faster effects Single only
SGO - Mamba FX High-end compositing Faster keying, tracking, painting and Single only
restoration
The Foundry - HIERO Shot management, conform and review Better interactivity Single only
timeline
The Foundry - NUKE, Compositing tools with 3D tracker Faster effects Single only
NUKEX and NUKE Studio
Video Copilot - Element 3D object based particle system Faster effects Yes
3D
Video Copilot - Twitch Video effects plug-in for After Effects Faster effects Single only

EDITING
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT

Adobe - Photoshop CC Image editing Over 30 effects for smoother image Single only
manipulation in Mercury Graphics Engine
Adobe - Premiere Pro CC Video editing Mercury Playback Engine for real-time Yes
video editing & accelerated rendering
Apple - Final Cut Pro Video editing Faster effects Single only
Autodesk - Smoke Finishing and editing Faster effects Single only

Avid - Media Composer Video editing Faster video effects, unique stereo 3D Single only
capabilities

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 EditShare - Lightworks Video editing Faster effects Single only
Grass Valley - Edius Pro Video editing Faster effects Single only
Imagine Communications Video editing Faster effects Single only
- Velocity
Snell Advanced Media - Broadcast video editing Faster video effects, unique stereo 3D Single only
Qube capabilities
Sony - Catalyst Browse, Video editing Faster effects, transitions and encoding Single only
Prepare and Edit
Sony - Vegas Pro Video editing Faster video effects and encoding Single only

ENCODING AND DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION

APPLICATION DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT

ArcVideo - Core
ArcVideo - Live
Cinnafilm - Tachyon
Comprimato - JPEG2000
Codec
Dalet - Amberfin
Elemental - Elemental
Live
Elemental - Elemental
Server
ERLAB - Multiplatform
Transcoder
* Fastvideo - GPU Image
Processing SDK
Fastvideo - H.264
encoder
Fastvideo - SDK
Interra - Baton
isovideo - Viarte
METUS - Ingest
Root6 - Content Agent
Sorenson Media -
Squeeze
Snell Advanced Media -
Alchemist on Demand
Tektronix - Aurora
Telestream - Vantage
Lightspeed
Wowza - Transcoder
Video processing and transcoding
High-density, real-time video processing
and encoding.
Standards conversion
JPEG2000 encoding and decoding for DCP,
IMF, video editing, broadcast contribution,
and archiving.
Transcoding and video quality analysis
Live streaming video processing and
encoding
File-based video processing and encoding
Video processing and encoding software
Full image processing pipeline on CUDA
H.264 encoding on GPU
JPEG, JPEG2000, Raw Bayer codecs
Video quality analysis
Video standards conversion
Video recording, transcoding, and
streaming software.
Automated transcoding and workflow
management
Video transcoding application and plug-In
Video standards conversion
Automated video quality measurement
Video transcoding and processing
H.264 video encoding
Accelerated transcoding and encoding Yes
Accelerated broadcast encoding with Yes
NVIDIA CUDA and NVENC.
Video processing and frame rate conversion Yes
Faster than real-time UltraHD / 4K, lossy Yes
and mathematically lossless, high bit-
depth (HDR), performance scalable, GPU
accelerated.
GPU-accelerated video procession and Single only
encoding
Video encoding and video processing Yes
Video encoding and video processing Yes
Pre-processing encoding, decoding, post- Single only
processing and delivery
Full image processing pipeline on GPU for Yes
real-time imaging applications: Flat Field
correction, Demosaicing, Denoising, Color
correction, LUT, Resize, Sharp, OpenGL
output, JPEG, JPEG2000, Raw Bayer, H.264
encoding
NVENC accelerated video encoding Yes
Fast JPEG, JPEG2000, Raw Bayer encoding Yes
and decoding on CUDA
GPU accelerated video quality assessment Single only
CUDA-accelerated video procession and Yes
encoding
CUDA Accelerated video recording, Single only
encoding and broadcast transcoding
GPU-accelerated video procession and Yes
encoding
Video encoding and video processing Yes
GPU-accelerated video procession and Yes
encoding
GPU-accelerated video quality assessment Single only
Video encoding and video processing Yes
NVENC accelerated video encoding Single only

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 ON-AIR GRAPHICS
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT

Brainstorm - eStudio Virtual sets and motion graphics Real-time rendering Single only
ChyronHego - GS2 On-air graphics Real-time rendering Single only
Graphics Engine
ChyronHego - Mosaic On-air graphics Real-time rendering Single only
* ChyronHego On-air graphics and virtual sets Real-time rendering Single only
Cinegy - Type On-air Graphics Real-time rendering Single only
Dalet - Cube On-air Graphics Real-time rendering Single only
Grass Valley - Vertigo On-air Graphics Real-time rendering Single only
Imagine Communications On-air graphics Real-time rendering Yes
- Nexio Channelbrand
Imagine Communications On-air graphics Real-time rendering Single only
- Nexio G8
Imagine Communications On-air graphics Real-time rendering Single only
- Nexio TitleOne
Monarch - Brodcaast 3D on-air graphics Real-time rendering Single only
Dscript 3D
Monarch - Virtuoso Virtual sets and motion graphics Real-time rendering Single only
Pixel Power - Clarity On-air graphics Real-time rendering Single only
RT Software - tOG On-air graphics Real-time rendering Single only
Vizrt - Viz Engine On-air graphics and virtual sets Real-time rendering Single only
Wasp3D - CG On-air graphics and virtual sets Real-time rendering Single only

ON-SET, REVIEW AND STEREO TOOLS

APPLICATION DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT

Autodesk - RV Review and approval of 4K content Real-time Single only

3ality Technica - 3D stereo camera adjustment CUDA-based 3D imaging Single only
Intellicam
Binocle3D - Disparity 3D stereoscopic workflow CUDA-based 3D imaging Single only
Killer
Blackmagic Design - 3D stereoscopic workflow Real-time Single only
Dimension
BlueFish - Fluid 4K Review and approval of 4K content Real-time video review Single only
Review
Colorfront - On-Set Review, color grading and transcoding on Real-time Yes
Dailies set
Lightcraft - Previzion On-set virtual production Real-time, virtual set production Single only
MTI Film - Cortex Dailies Review, color grading and transcoding on CUDA accelerated grading and transcoding Single only
set
The Pixel Farm - PFTrack 3D scene creation and tracking CUDA-accelerated tracking Yes

WEATHER GRAPHICS
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT

Accuweather - Weather graphics Real-time Single only

Cinemative HD
Accuweather - Weather graphics Real-time Single only
Storyteller
* ChyronHego- Metacast Weather graphics Real-time Single only
MeteoGraphics - Weather graphics Real-time Single only
MeteoEarth
WSI - Max Weather Weather graphics Real-time Single only

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 Medical Imaging
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT

* PowerGrid Advanced MRI reconstruction modeling Discrete Fourier Tranform Yes

Oil and Gas

APPLICATION DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT

Acceleware Seismic processing RTM, Kirchhoff, control source, Yes

AxRTM electromagnetism, forward modeling.
AxKTM
BRS Labs AISight for Proactive integrity management and real- 24/7 real-time analysis and alerting scaling Yes
SCADA time precursor alerts for enhanced SCADA to thousands of sensors across remote
operations in oil and gas. and geographically dispersed locations
including historical analysis and trend
reports.
CGG- GeoVation Seismic processing Multiple algorithms (RTM, etc) Yes
CGG- Inside Earth Seismic interpretation Horizon orientation attributes; automated Yes
fault extraction, Curvature Attributes.
Echelon Stoneridge Reservoir simulator Fully GPU-accelerated reservoir model, Yes
Technology including dual-perm, dual porosity,
pressure varying perm and porosity.
Eclipse compatible input deck.
Esri ArcGIS for Desktop Determines the raster surface locations Viewshed2 transforms the elevation surface Yes
(ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro) visible to a set of observer features, using into a geocentric 3D coordinate system and
Spatial Analyst and 3D geodesic methods. runs 3D sightlines to each transformed cell
Analyst center.
ffA Geoteric Seismic interpretation Attributes calculations, geobodies Yes
extraction
ffA SEA3D Pro Seismic interpretation Attributes calculations, geobodies Yes
extraction
ffA SVI Pro Seismic interpretation Attributes calculations, geobodies Yes
extraction
GeoMage Multifocusing Seismic processing Advanced seismic imaging technologies Yes
and services, as well as interpretation,
geological modeling, and reservoir
characterization.
HUE Headwave Suite Seismic interpretation Attributes calculations, Volume Rendering Yes
HUE HUEspace Seismic interpretation Interpretation development platform Yes
OpenGeo Solutions Seismic processing Spectral Decomposition Yes
OpenSeis
Panorama Tech Seismic processing, Modeling Multiple algorithms (RTM, etc) Yes
Paradigm Echos RTM Seismic processing RTM algorithm Yes
Paradigm Geophysical Seismic interpretation Volume Rendering, Horizon Flattening Yes
VoxelGeo
Paradigm SKUA Reservoir modeling Faults, Horizons and Flow Simulation Grid Yes
PumaFlow IFP Reservoir simulation GPU-accelerated linear solver Yes
Ridgeway Kite Simulator Reservoir simulation Fully GPU-accelerated reservoir model, Yes
including surface facilities and multiple
realization history matching.
Roxar RMS Reservoir modeling Multi GPU capabilities via HUEspace Yes
Schlumberger Omega2 Seismic processing Multiple algorithms (RTM, etc) Yes
RTM
Seismic City Prestack Seismic processing Multiple algorithms (RTM, etc) Yes
Interpretation
SpectraSeis Seismic processing Full elastic wave-equation imaging and Yes
analysis of microseismic fracture data.

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 Stoneridge Technologies Reservoir simulation
GAMPACK
Tsunami A2011 Seismic processing/Imaging package
Tsunami RTM Seismic processing
Research: Higher Education and Supercomputing
COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY
Bioinformatics
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION
Arioc High-throughput read alignment with GPU- Single-end alignment, paired-end
accelerated exploration of the seed-and- alignment
extend search space
formats
BarraCUDA Sequence mapping software
BEAGLE-lib BEAGLE is a high-performance library
that can perform the core calculations at
the heart of most Bayesian and Maximum
Likelihood phylogenetics packages. It can
make use of highly-parallel processors
such as those in graphics cards (GPUs)
found in many PCs.
Campaign An open-source library of GPU-accelerated
data clustering algorithms and tools.
CUDASW++ Open source software for Smith-Waterman
protein database searches on GPUs.
CUSHAW Parallelized short read aligner
G-BLASTN GPU-accelerated nucleotide alignment tool Blastn and megablast modes of NCBI-
based on the widely used NCBI-BLAST.
GPU-Blast Local search with fast k-tuple heuristic
mCUDA-MEME Ultrafast scalable motif discovery
algorithm based on MEME .
MUMmer GPU High-throughput local sequence alignment
program
NVBIO NVBIO is an open source C++ library
of reusable components designed to
accelerate bioinformatics applications
using CUDA.
NVBowtie A largely complete implementation of the
Bowtie2 aligner on top of NVBIO.
PEANUT Read mapper for DNA or RNA sequence
reads to a known reference genome.
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GPU Algebraic MultiGrid Package Yes
RTM processing Yes
RTM algorithm Yes
SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT
Yes
Output in SAM or database-ready binary
Multiple GPU implementation
Alignment of short sequencing reads, Yes
alignment of indels with gap openings and
extensions.
Evaluation of likelihood for sequence Yes
evolution on trees and Arbitrary models
(e.g. nucleotide, amino acid, codon)
Speed-ups (over CPU only version):
nucleotide model = up to 25x, codon model
= up to 50x.
K-means (and Kps-means, a K-means Single only
variant for GPUs with parallel sorting
for improved performance), K-medoids,
K-centers (a K-medoids variant in which
medoids are placed only once according
to a heuristic), Hierarchical clustering and
Self-organizing map.
Parallel search of Smith-Waterman Yes
database.
Parallel, accurate long read aligner for Yes
large genomes
Single only
BLAST
Protein alignment according to BLASTP Single only
Scalable motif discovery algorithm based Yes
on MEME.
Aligns multiple query sequences against TBD
reference sequence in parallel.
Data structures, algorithms, and utility Yes
routines useful for building complex
computational genomics applications on
CPU-GPU systems.
Good coverage of Bowtie2 features and Yes
comparable quality results.
Achieves supreme sensitivity and speed Single only
compared to current state of the art read
mappers like BWA MEM, Bowtie2 and
RazerS3. PEANUT reports both only the
best hits or all hits.
REACTA A modified version of GCTA with improved GRM creation, REML analysis, Regional Yes
computational performance, support Heritability (including multi-GPU).
for Graphics Processing Units (GPUs),
and additional features. The purpose of
REACTA is to quantify the contribution of
genetic variation to phenotypic variation for
complex traits.
SeqNFind SeqNFind is a powerful tool suite that Hardware and software for reference Yes
addresses the need for complete and assembly, blast, SW, HMM, de novo
accurate alignments of many small assembly.
sequences against entire genomes utilizing
a unique hardware/software cluster system
for facilitating bioinformatics research in
Next Generation sequencing and genomic
comparisons.
SOAP3 GPU-based software for aligning short Short read alignment tool that is not Yes
reads with a reference sequence. It can heuristic based; reports all answers.
find all alignments with k mismatches,
where k is chosen from 0 to 3.
SOAP3-dp SOAP3-dp: Ultra-fast GPU-based tool for Borrows-Wheeler Transformation, Dynamic Yes
short read alignment via index-assisted Programming.
dynamic programming.
UGene Open source Smith-Waterman for SSE/ Fast short read alignment. Yes
CUDA, Suffix array based repeats finder
and dotplot.
WideLM Fits numerous linear models to a fixed Parallel linear regression on multiple Yes
design and response. similarly-shaped models.

Molecular Dynamics
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT

ACEMD GPU simulation of molecular mechanics
force fields, implicit and explicit solvent
AMBER Suite of programs to simulate molecular
dynamics on biomolecule.
CHARMM MD package to simulate molecular
dynamics on biomolecule.
DESMOND High-speed molecular dynamics
simulations of biological systems.
ESPResSo Highly versatile software package for
performing and analyzing scientific
Molecular Dynamics many-particle
simulations of coarse-grained atomistic
or bead-spring models as they are used in
soft-matter research in physics, chemistry
and molecular biology.
Folding@Home A distributed computing project that
studies protein folding, misfolding,
aggregation, and related diseases.
GPUgrid.net A distributed computing project that uses
GPUs for molecular simulations.
GROMACS Simulation of biochemical molecules with
complicated bond interactions.
HALMD Large-scale simulations of simple and
complex liquids.
HOOMD-Blue Particle dynamics package written grounds Written for use only on GPUs
up for GPUs.
LAMMPS Classical molecular dynamics package
Written for use only on GPUs. Yes
PMEMD Explicit Solvent and GB Implicit Yes
Solvent
Implicit (5x), Explicit (2x) Solvent via Yes
OpenMM, now ported natively to GPUs.
The code uses novel parallel algorithms Yes
and numerical techniques to achieve high
performance and accuracy.
Hydrodynamic / Electrokinetic forces Yes
P3M electrostatics.
Powerful distributed computing molecular Yes
dynamics system; implicit solvent and
folding.
High-performance all-atom biomolecular Yes
simulations; explicit solvent and binding.
Implicit (5x), Explicit (2x) Solvent Yes
Simple fluids and binary mixtures (pair Single only
potentials, high-precision NVE and NVT,
dynamic correlations).
Yes
Lennard-Jones, Gay-Berne, Tersoff, and Yes
dozens more potentials

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 * MELD OpenMM plugin written for GPUs
NAMD Designed for high-performance simulation
of large molecular systems.
OpenMM Library and application for molecular
dynamics for HPC with GPUs.
PolyFTS Classical molecular simulation code
for studying polymer self-assembly and
thermodynamics.
SOP-GPU SOP-GPU package, where SOP stands for
the Self Organized Polymer Model fully
implemented on a GPU, is a scientific
software package designed to perform
Langevin Dynamics Simulations of
the mechanical or thermal unfolding,
and mechanical indentation of large
biomolecular systems in the experimental
subsecond (millisecond-to-second)
timescale.
Quantum Chemistry
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION
Abinit Allows to find total energy, charge density
and electronic structure of systems made
of electrons and nuclei within DFT.
ACES III Takes best features of parallel
implementations of quantum chemistry
methods for electronic structure.
ADF Density Functional Theory (DFT) software
package that enables first-principles
electronic structure calculations.
BigDFT Implements density functional theory
by solving the Kohn-Sham equations
describing the electrons in a material.
CASTEP [In CASTEP is a leading code for calculating
development] the properties of materials from first
principles. Using density functional theory,
it can simulate a wide range of properties
of materials proprieties including
energetics, structure at the atomic level,
vibrational properties, electronic response
properties etc.
CP2K Program to perform atomistic and
molecular simulations of solid state, liquid,
molecular and biological systems.
GAMESS-UK The general purpose ab initio molecular
electronic structure program for
performing SCF-, DFT- and MCSCF-
gradient calculations.
GAMESS-US Computational chemistry suite used to
simulate atomic and molecular electronic
structure.
Gaussian [In Predicts energies, molecular structures,
development] and vibrational frequencies of molecular
systems.
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Integrative approach to combine physics Yes
and information
Orders of magnitude faster protein folding
than brute force MD
Full electrostatics with PME and most Yes
simulation features; 100M atom capable.
Implicit and explicit solvent, custom forces Yes
Uses auxiliary fields as the fundamental Single only
simulation degrees of freedom, Uses cuFFT
extensively (~ 80%), CUDA code is ~20%,
Multi CPU or single GPU per job, 1x = Ivy
Bridge E5-2690 CPU all 10 cores, 3-8X on
K40 or K80 (utilizing 1/2 of the K80).
Langevin dynamics simulations using Single only
the coarse-grained Self Organized
Polymer (SOP) model, Multiple
simulation trajectories can be performed
simultaneously on a single GPU, Calpha
and Calpha-Cbeta models are supported,
Simulations of protein forced unfolding,
Novel simulations of nanoindentation
in silico, Support for hydrodynamic
interactions, Up to ~100 ms of simulation
time per day, Systems of up to 1,000,000
amino-acids (on GPUs with 6GB or great
memory).
SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT
Local Hamiltonian, non-local Hamiltonian, Yes
LOBPCG algorithm, diagonalization/
orthogonalization.
Integrating scheduling GPU into SIAL Yes
programming language and SIP runtime
environment.
Geometry optimizations and frequency Yes
calculations with GGA functionals.
DFT; Daubechies wavelets, part of Abinit Yes
TBD Yes
DBCSR (space matrix multiply library) Yes
(ss|ss) type integrals within calculations Yes
using Hartree-Fock ab initio methods
and density functional theory. Supports
organics and inorganics.
Libqc with Rys Quadrature Algorithm, Yes
Hartree-Fock, MP2 and CCSD.
Joint NVIDIA, PGI and Gaussian Yes
collaboration.
 GPAW Real-space grid DFT code written in C and
Python
gWL-LSMS Materials code for investigating the effects
of temperature on magnetism.
LATTE Density matrix computations
* LSDalton Linear-scaling HF and DFT code suitable
for large molecular systems, now also with
some CCSD capabilities
MOLCAS Methods for calculating general electronic
structures in molecular systems in both
ground and excited states.
MOPAC2012 Semiempirical Quantum Chemistry
NWChem Calculations
Octopus Used for ab initio virtual experimentation
and quantum chemistry calculations.
ONETEP [In ONETEP (Order-N Electronic Total Energy
development] Package) is a linear-scaling code for
quantum-mechanical calculations based
on density-functional theory.
PEtot First principles materials code that
computes the behavior of the electron
structures of materials.
PWMat The fastest plane wave pseudopotential
code for density functional theory
simulations based on GPU.
Q-CHEM Computational chemistry package
designed for HPC clusters.
QMCPACK Solves the many-body Schrodinger
equation for electronic structures using a
quantum Monte Carlo method.
Quantum Espresso/ An integrated suite of computer codes
PWscf for electronic structure calculations and
materials modeling at the nanoscale.
QUICK QUICK is a GPU-enabled ab intio quantum
chemistry software package.
TeraChem Quantum chemistry software designed to
run on NVIDIA GPU.
VASP Complex package for performing ab-initio
quantum-mechanical molecular dynamics
(MD) simulations using pseudopotentials
or the projector-augmented wave method
and a plane wave basis set.
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Electrostatic poisson equation, Yes
orthonormalizing of vectors, residual
minimization method (rmm-diis).
Generalized Wang-Landau method Yes
CU_BLAS, SP2 Algorithm Yes
(T) correction to the CCSD energy. Yes
RI-MP2 energy/gradient (in
development).
CCSD energy (in development).
GPU-based ERI generator (in
development).
CU_BLAS Single only
Additional
GPU support
coming in
Version 8
Pseudodiagonalization, full diagonalization, Single only
and density matrix assembling via Magma
libraries.
Triples part of Reg-CCSD(T), CCSD and Yes
EOMCCSD task schedulers.
Full GPU support for ground-state, TBD
real-time calculations; Kohn-Sham
Hamiltonian, orthogonalization, subspace
diagonalization, poisson solver, time
propagation.
TBD Yes
Density functional theory (DFT) plane wave Yes
pseudopotential calculations.
It can perform extremely fast plane wave Yes
DFT calculations based on GPU machines
and single precision and double precision
mixed algorithm. It deploys the state-of-
the-art electronic structure calculation
methods with many new features and
algorithm innovations. It performs ab initio
material science simulations, designed for
both theoretical and experimental groups.
Various features including RI-MP2 Single Only
Main features Yes
PWscf package: linear algebra (matix Yes
multiply), explicit computational kernels,
3D FFTs.
Running Hartree-Fock and DFT energy on Yes
GPU, Supports s, p, d, f orbitals on energy
calculation, HF gradient with s,p,d orbital
support, GPU-based ERI generator.
Full GPU-based solution; Performance Yes
compared to GAMESS CPU version.
Blocked Davidson (ALGO = NORMAL & Yes
FAST), RMM-DIIS (ALGO = VERYFAST &
FAST), K-Points and optimization for critical
step in exact exchange calculations.
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 Visualization and Docking
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT

Amira
A multifaceted software platform
for visualizing, manipulating, and
understanding Life Science and bio-
medical data.
BINDSURF A virtual screening methodology that uses
GPUs to determine protein binding sites.
BUDE Molecular docking program
FastROCS Molecule shape comparison application
* Interactive Molecule Experimental interactive molecule
Visualizer visualizer based on a ray-tracing engine.
Molegro Virtual Docker 6 Method for performing high accuracy
flexible molecular docking.
PaPaRa 2.0 A Vectorized Algorithm for Probabilistic
Phylogeny-Aware Alignment Extension.
PIPER Protein Docking Protein-protein docking program
PyMol User-sponsored molecular visualization
system on an open-source foundation
VEGA ZZ Molecular Modeling Toolkit
VMD Visualization and analyzing large bio-
molecular systems in 3-D graphics
3D visualization of volumetric data and Single only
surfaces
Allows fast processing of large ligand Single only
databases
Empirical Free Energy Force field Single only
Real-time shape similarity searching/ Yes
comparison
Targeting high quality images and Single only
ease of interaction, IMV uses the latest
GPUcomputing acceleration techniques,
combined with natural user interfaces such
as Kinect and Wiimotes.
Energy grid computation, pose evaluation Single only
and guided differential evolution.
Up to 15-fold run time improvements Single only
by deploying SIMD vector intrinsics to
accelerate the alignment kernel.
Molecule docking TBD
Lines: 460% increase Single only
Cartoons: 1246% increase
Surface: 1746% increase
Spheres: 753% increase
Ribbon: 426% increase
Virtual logP, molecular surface values Single only
High quality rendering, large structures Yes
(100M atoms), analysis and visualization
tasks, multiple GPU support for display of
molecular orbitals

NUMERICAL ANALYTICS
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT

Accelereyes- ArrayFire Comprehensive GPU function library Hundreds of functions for math, signal/ Yes
image processing, statistics, and more.
HiPLAR 3High Performance Linear Algebra in R Supports GPU and multi-core platforms, Yes
compatible with legacy R code, no new data (for algebra
types or operators, auto-tuning, support for functions via
R Matrix package. Magma 1.5 or
later)
Mathematica Wolfram A symbolic technical computing language Development environment for CUDA and Yes
and development environment. OpenCL. GPU acceleration for Wolfram
Finance Platform.
Mathworks - MATLAB GPU acceleration for MATLAB (high-level Support for 200+ of most used MATLAB Yes
technical computing language). functions (incl. Signal Processing, Image
Processing, Communications Systems, etc).
NMath Premium GPU-accelerated math and statistics for Automatically offloads computations to the Single only
.NET, automatically detects the presence GPU.
of a CUDA-enabled GPU at runtime
and seamlessly redirects appropriate
computations to it.

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 PHYSICS
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT

AWP The Anelastic Wave Propagation, AWP- 3D Finite Difference Computation Single only
ODC, independently simulates the dynamic
rupture and wave propagation that occurs
during an earthquake. Dynamic rupture
produces friction, traction, slip, and slip
rate information on the fault. The moment
function is constructed from this fault data
and used to initialize wave propagation.
BQCD Lattice quantum chromodynamics Wilson-clover fermion linear solver Yes
application, used for nuclear ad high
energy physics calculations.
* CASTRO A multicomponent compressible Gravitational Field Solver Yes
hydrodynamic code for astrophysical flows
including self-gravity, nuclear reactions
and radiation. CASTRO uses an Eulerian
grid and incorporates adaptive mesh
refinement (AMR). The approach uses a
nested hierarchy of logically-rectangular
grids with simultaneous refinement in both
space and time.
Changa Astrophysics code performs collisionless Gravitational Model has been accelerated Single only
N-body simulations. It can perform using CUDA
cosmological simulations with periodic
boundary conditions in comoving
coordinates or simulations of isolated
stellar systems.
Chemora Chemora is a system for performing Chemora embeds the equations' Yes
simulations of systems described computational kernels into dynamically
by differential equations running on compiled loop nests shaped for input size
accelerated computational clusters. and GPU structure.
Chroma Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (LQCD) Wilson-clover fermions, Krylov solvers, Yes
Domain-decomposition
CPS Lattice quantum chromodynamics Wilson, domain-wall and Mbius fermion Yes
application, used for nuclear ad high linear solvers
energy physics calculations.
ENZO 3D block-structured AMR code for Accelerated magneto hydrodynamics Yes
cosmological structure formation. solvers
GTC Simulates microturbulence and transport Electron push and shift (accounting for Yes
in magnetically confined fusion plasma. >80% of run time)
GTC-P A development code for optimization of Optimized with CUDA. OpenACC Yes
plasma physics. Full science and data sets development underway
are included, but in a simplified form to
allow performance testing and tuning.
GTS Simulates microturbulence and the motion Push and shift for both electron and ion Yes
of charged particles and interactions in dynamics
fusion plasma.
HACC Simulates N-Body Astrophysics This code has been optimized with CUDA Yes
runs in full production mode.
* MAESTRO A low Mach number stellar hydrodynamics Gravitational Field Solver Yes
code that can be used to simulate long-
time, low-speed flows that would be
prohibitively expensive to model using
traditional compressible code.
MILC Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (LQCD) Staggered fermions, Krylov solvers, Gauge- Yes
codes simulate how elemental particles link fattening.
are formed and bound by the strong force
to create larger particles like protons and
neutrons.

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 OSIRIS Simulates Plasma Physics including Laser
interaction
PIConGPU A relativistic Particle-in-Cell code that Simulation of laser-wakefield acceleration
describes the dynamics of a plasma by
computing the motion of electrons and ions
subject to the Maxwell-Vlasov equation.
PPM Piecewise parabolic method, a higher-
order extension of Godunov's method
which uses spatial interpolation and
allows for a steeper representation of
discontinuities, particularly contact
discontinuities.
QUDA Library for Lattice QCD calculations using
GPUs.
RAMSES Simulates astrophysical problems on
different scales (e.g. star formation,
galaxy dynamics, cosmological structure
formation).
XGC Simulates edge effects for MHD plasma
physics
2 dimensions of the particle push have Yes
been optimized with CUDA. Additional
optimization is being planned with
OpenACC.
Yes
of electrons.
Turbulent, compressible mixing of gases Single only
in the context of stars near the ends of
their lives and also in inertial confinement
fusion.
CUDA supports the following fermion Yes
formulations: Wilson,Wilson-clover,Twisted
mass,Improved staggered (asqtad or HISQ)
and Domain wall.
CUDA acceleration is applied for radiative Yes
transfer for reionization, and the
hydrodynamic solver using AMR.
The particle push portion has been Yes
optimized with CUDA and is being fully
optimized with OpenACC and CUDA.

SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT

3D Slicer Medical visualization & segmentation Rendering, image processing Single only
CEI EnSight Visualization and analysis application for Rendering Yes
CAE
FluoRender (SCI, U of Interactive rendering tool for confocal Multi-channel volume rendering Single only
Utah) microscopy data visualization.
GPULib for IDL Data analysis application Analysis tasks Single only
HVR (LCSE, U of Interactive volume rendering application Volume rendering Yes
Minnesota)
ImageVis3D (SCI, U of Simple, scalable, and interactive volume Out-of-core volume rendering Single only
Utah) rendering application.
IntelligentLight Visualization application for CFD Rendering Single only
FieldView
MathWorks - MATLAB Data analysis and visualization application Rendering and analysis tasks Single only
ParaView Scalable data anlysis and visualization Rendering and analysis tasks Yes
application
Seg3D (SCI, U of Utah) Segmentation application for medical data Rendering, image processing Single only
Visulalization Toolkit Data anlysis and visualization toolkit Rendering Single only
(VTK)
VisIt Scalable data anlysis and visualization Rendering and analysis tasks Yes
application
vl3 (Argonne National Large dataset visualization in cosmology, Volume rendering of particles Yes
Lab) astrophysics, and biosciences fields.
VMD (U of Illionis, Visualization and analysis of large bio- High-qulity rendering, large structures Yes
Urbana-Champaign) molecular systems in 3-D graphics. (100M atoms), analysis and visualization
tasks, multiple GPU support for display of
molecular orbitals.

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 Safety & Security
APPLICATION
* Cognika - Perseus
* Genetec Security GPU accelerated decode & rendering
Center 5.3
Herta Security -
BioSurveillance NEXT,
BioFinder
* iCetana - iMotionFocus
intuVision - intuVision VA
* IQrity Inc. - IQrity RTFace
-300/600, IQrity LDFace
- 800
* Macroscop
Mi-AccLib
MotionDSP - Ikena
Forensic, Ikena Spotlight
NEC NeoFace Watch Face recognition for real-time video
Nervve - Visual Search
Solution (NVSS)
* Network Optix - Nx
Witness
* Smilart Platform
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DESCRIPTION
Real-Time Alerting and Visual Search for
Fixed and PTZ Cameras
Offloads the workload of video stream
enables the display of more high-
resolution streams from a single
workstation, as well as enhancing video
playback performance.
Real time facial recognition and forensic
alerts against multiple watchlists.
Intelligent analysis of video on 1,000+
camera streams to significantly filter and
reduce the camera streams requiring an
operator view.
Real-time alerts and data reporting from
use cases include Security, Traffic, Retail
and Parking, Analysis of video streams in
real-time and on archived video at up to
20x real-time speeds.
Deep Learning facial recognition SDK
with 25 bytes template for real-time
identification applications and large-scale
IdM solutions
Open-platform video management
software for scalable IP video surveillance
systems with advanced video analytics.
Accelerated library for video analysis on
video surveillance.
Real-time (render-less) super-resolution-
based video enhancement and redaction
software for forensic analysts and law
enforcement professionals
Detects & recognizes multiple faces
surveillance and offline search compared
against multiple watch-lists.
High speed visual search and analysis
IP video management system designed
for auto discovering, managing, recording,
analyzing and searching thousands of video
streams at the same time
Real-time face recognition in cooperative
and uncooperative scenarios adaptable
for a multitude of applications to detect,
identify or verify people and objects.
SUPPORTED FEATURES MULTI-GPU SUPPORT
Real-Time alerting on humans or vehicles; Yes
Content-based image search on humans or
vehicles
Single only
decode and display rendering of multiple
streams to GPU.
Supports crowded scenes, difficult lighting, Yes
faster than real-time analysis, partial face
concealment.
GPU accelerated machine learning to Yes
identify abnormal activity within video
streams
Robust and user trainable object Yes
classification for tracking. Using distributed
architecture
Real-time face detection, verification or Yes
suspect identification against multi-million
datasets based on an artificial neural
network
H264 decoding for CPU offload, zooming, Yes
image conversion shader from 24 to 32 bits
delivering better color combination
Accelerated Intrusion Detection Algorithm. Yes
Multi-filter, render-less video Yes
reconstruction (super-resolution,
stabilization, light/color correction), and
automatic tracking for redaction video from
body cameras, CCTV and other sources.
Yes
simultaneously in crowds and variable
lighting, scales to more cameras, larger
face databases.
Uses images instead of keywords to search Yes
for objects or scenes of interest within
video and imagery. Reliant solely on pixel
data with no training, keywords, or tags
required.
GPU accelerated conversion of YUV images Yes
to RGB, drawing and scaling YUV images in
desktop client, dewarping fisheye (circular
or panamorph) live or recorded video
streams
Critical core segments written in CUDA Yes
allowing for unlimited parallelization and
transparent clustering.
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