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Assignment 1

Program 1: RSA Encryption

Code From Github: link

Profiling

gprof: Encryption 10MB

  %   cumulative   self              self     total           
 time   seconds   seconds    calls   s/call   s/call  name    
 60.48      1.50     1.50  3495254     0.00     0.00  fastModularExp(unsigned long long, unsigned long long, unsigned long long)
 32.66      2.31     0.81  3495254     0.00     0.00  findHighestSetBit(unsigned long long)
  4.44      2.42     0.11        1     0.11     2.48  encryption(std::string, std::string, std::string)
  2.42      2.48     0.06  3495254     0.00     0.00  intToByteArray(int, char*)
  0.00      2.48     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  _GLOBAL__sub_I__Z10encryptionSsSsSs
  0.00      2.48     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  _GLOBAL__sub_I_main
  0.00      2.48     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)
  0.00      2.48     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)

gprof: Encryption 20MB

  %   cumulative   self              self     total           
 time   seconds   seconds    calls   s/call   s/call  name    
 63.65      3.27     3.27  6990507     0.00     0.00  fastModularExp(unsigned long long, unsigned long long, unsigned long long)
 29.04      4.75     1.49  6990507     0.00     0.00  findHighestSetBit(unsigned long long)
  3.90      4.96     0.20        1     0.20     5.13  encryption(std::string, std::string, std::string)
  3.41      5.13     0.17  6990507     0.00     0.00  intToByteArray(int, char*)
  0.00      5.13     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  _GLOBAL__sub_I__Z10encryptionSsSsSs
  0.00      5.13     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  _GLOBAL__sub_I_main
  0.00      5.13     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)
  0.00      5.13     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)

gprof: Encryption 30MB

  %   cumulative   self              self     total           
 time   seconds   seconds    calls   s/call   s/call  name    
 68.04      5.11     5.11 10485760     0.00     0.00  fastModularExp(unsigned long long, unsigned long long, unsigned long long)
 25.23      7.00     1.90 10485760     0.00     0.00  findHighestSetBit(unsigned long long)
  3.99      7.30     0.30        1     0.30     7.51  encryption(std::string, std::string, std::string)
  2.73      7.51     0.20 10485760     0.00     0.00  intToByteArray(int, char*)
  0.00      7.51     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  _GLOBAL__sub_I__Z10encryptionSsSsSs
  0.00      7.51     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  _GLOBAL__sub_I_main
  0.00      7.51     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)
  0.00      7.51     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)

gprof: Decryption 10MB

  %   cumulative   self              self     total           
 time   seconds   seconds    calls   s/call   s/call  name    
 69.80      1.71     1.71  3495254     0.00     0.00  fastModularExp(unsigned long long, unsigned long long, unsigned long long)
 21.63      2.24     0.53  3495254     0.00     0.00  findHighestSetBit(unsigned long long)
  6.12      2.39     0.15        1     0.15     2.45  decryption(std::string, std::string, std::string)
  2.45      2.45     0.06  3495254     0.00     0.00  intToByteArray(int, char*)
  0.00      2.45     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  _GLOBAL__sub_I__Z10encryptionSsSsSs
  0.00      2.45     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  _GLOBAL__sub_I_main
  0.00      2.45     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)
  0.00      2.45     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)

gprof: Decryption 20MB

  %   cumulative   self              self     total           
 time   seconds   seconds    calls   s/call   s/call  name    
 64.11      3.38     3.38  6990507     0.00     0.00  fastModularExp(unsigned long long, unsigned long long, unsigned long long)
 27.18      4.82     1.44  6990507     0.00     0.00  findHighestSetBit(unsigned long long)
  4.73      5.07     0.25        1     0.25     5.28  decryption(std::string, std::string, std::string)
  3.98      5.28     0.21  6990507     0.00     0.00  intToByteArray(int, char*)
  0.00      5.28     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  _GLOBAL__sub_I__Z10encryptionSsSsSs
  0.00      5.28     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  _GLOBAL__sub_I_main
  0.00      5.28     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)
  0.00      5.28     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)

gprof: Decryption 30MB

  %   cumulative   self              self     total           
 time   seconds   seconds    calls   s/call   s/call  name    
 66.88      5.25     5.25 10485760     0.00     0.00  fastModularExp(unsigned long long, unsigned long long, unsigned long long)
 24.59      7.18     1.93 10485760     0.00     0.00  findHighestSetBit(unsigned long long)
  5.73      7.63     0.45        1     0.45     7.85  decryption(std::string, std::string, std::string)
  2.80      7.85     0.22 10485760     0.00     0.00  intToByteArray(int, char*)
  0.00      7.85     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  _GLOBAL__sub_I__Z10encryptionSsSsSs
  0.00      7.85     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  _GLOBAL__sub_I_main
  0.00      7.85     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)
  0.00      7.85     0.00        1     0.00     0.00  __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)

Bottleneck Code

The two slowest parts of this encryption method are fastModularExp and findHighestSetBit. A third function, intToByteArray, takes up a relatively small amount of time but may still be able to be optimized.

unsigned int fastModularExp(ULong a, ULong b, ULong c) {
    ULong result = 1;
    ULong leadingbit = findHighestSetBit(b); // Heighest set bit
    while(leadingbit > 0){ //while there are bits left
        result = ((result*result) % c); //case 1: bit is a 0
        if((b & leadingbit) > 0){
            result = ((result * a) % c); //case 2: if bit is a 1
        }
        leadingbit = leadingbit >> 1;
    }
    return (unsigned int)result;
}

ULong findHighestSetBit(ULong num){
    ULong result = 0;
    for(int i = 63; i >= 0; i--){
        if(num & (1ULL << i)){
            result = 1ULL << i;
            return result;
        }
    }
    return result;
}

byte* intToByteArray(int num, byte *result){
    for(int i = 0; i < 4; i++){
        result[i] = (num & (0xFF << (8 *(3-i)))) >> (8 *(3-i));
    }
    return result;
}

At first glance, the fastest function is also the function that appears like it would be the easiest to run on a GPU. The other code does not look like it can be optimized with a GPU easily as it does not use large arrays of N size. However, after some short internet research, several documents turned up on the topic of using a GPU to make RSA faster (example: here and here). This leaves me hopeful that in the further stages of this assignment that this could be an interesting program to work with.

Ryan Mullings: Program 2-Image Manipulation Processor

I decided to profile an Image manipulation program since it had many different functions that I could play around with. Also depending on the number of files you enter as arguments the processor will display different options Source Code:link to dream in code

Sample Run

Code for some of the manipulations

Profiles

Profile for shrinking image by 2

  %   cumulative                   self     total           
 time   seconds    calls   s/call   s/call  name    
 40.22      5.75     2     0.00     0.00  Image(Image const&)
 27.53      3.32     1     0.00     0.00  readImage(char*, Image&)
 13.23      2.21     1     0.00     2.48  shrinkImage(int, Image&)
 12.67      2.11     1     0.00     0.00  Image(int, int, int)
  6.32      2.48     1     0.00     0.00  writeImage(char*, Image&)

Profile for Expanding image by 3 and Rotating by 20 degrees

  %   cumulative                   self     total           
 time   seconds    calls   s/call   s/call  name    
 64.28      11.23    1     0.00     0.00  rotateImage(Image const&)
 16.89      4.51     1     0.00     0.00  enlargeImage(char*, Image&)
 13.23      2.21     1     0.00     0.00  writeImage(int, Image&)

Essentially, all of the functions are the main hotspots from the test runs.

Program 3: Serial pi Calculation - C version

I've decided to profile the calculate (estimate) of pi using a "dartboard" algorithm.

The program is described as the follows:

* FILE: ser_pi_calc.c
* DESCRIPTION:  
*   Serial pi Calculation - C Version
*   This program calculates pi using a "dartboard" algorithm.  See
*   Fox et al.(1988) Solving Problems on Concurrent Processors, vol.1
*   page 207.  
* AUTHOR: unknown
* REVISED: 02/23/12 Blaise Barney

* Throw darts at board.  Done by generating random numbers
* between 0 and 1 and converting them to values for x and y
* coordinates and then testing to see if they "land" in
* the circle."  If so, score is incremented.  After throwing the
* specified number of darts, pi is calculated.  The computed value
* of pi is returned as the value of this function, dboard.

Source file

source code

Hardware and software

Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.151019-1254)

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3740QM CPU @ 2.70GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.7GHz

Available OS Memory: 16280MB RAM

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M

Software: Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate

CUDA 7.5

Profiling

By default the argument 100000 darts and 100 rounds.

using matrix@seneca I entered the following commands.

compiled using

 g++ -O2 -g -pg -opi ser_pi_calc.c

execute

pi

gprof:

 gprof -p -b bs > result.flt

view result

 cat result.flt

results:

Float profile:
Each sample counts as 0.01 seconds.
 %   cumulative   self              self     total
time   seconds   seconds    calls  Ts/call  Ts/call  name
100.00   0.03      0.03                            dboard(int)

It appears it only calls the dboard(int) function

Code Snippet

 for (n = 1; n <= darts; n++) {
     /* generate random numbers for x and y coordinates */
     r = (double)random()/cconst;
     x_coord = (2.0 * r) - 1.0;
     r = (double)random()/cconst;
     y_coord = (2.0 * r) - 1.0;
     /* if dart lands in circle, increment score */
     if ((sqr(x_coord) + sqr(y_coord)) <= 1.0)
        score++;
     }
  /* calculate pi */
  pi = 4.0 * (double)score/(double)darts;
  return(pi);  
 }

Plans

Using the serial Pi calculator/estimator, benchmark a large amount of sampling which reaches the limit of my computer. Perhaps changing the number of round to one and and run the maximum sampling size and accuracy that my computer can handle.

Problem

When using the code with visual studio, I had errors trying to compile it. It appears after some time searching online, the #include <time.h> function void srandom(unsigned seed); and random() does not come standard in all ANSI code so I tried the approach using srand(time(NULL)) and rand(); and still failed resulting returns of 0.0000. zeroes. I modified the code for the random generate number and added report time and pretty much kept the idea the same into a simpler program.

Code

#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <chrono>
using namespace std::chrono;

double generateNumber() {
	const double randf = 1.0f / (double)RAND_MAX;
	return std::rand() * randf;
}


void reportTime(const char* msg, steady_clock::duration span) {
	double nsecs = double(span.count()) *
		steady_clock::period::num / steady_clock::period::den;
	std::cout << msg << " - took - " <<
		nsecs << " secs" << std::endl;
}

// report system time
/* void reportTime(const char* msg, steady_clock::duration span) {
	auto ms = duration_cast<milliseconds>(span);
	std::cout << msg << " - took - " <<
		ms.count() << " millisecs" << std::endl;
}
*/

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
	double dart = std::atoi(argv[1]);
	steady_clock::time_point ts, te;


	double x, y;
	int i;
	int score = 0;
	double z;
	double pi;

	ts = steady_clock::now();
	
	for (i = 0; i<dart; ++i) {
		x = (double)generateNumber();
		y = (double)generateNumber();
		z = sqrt((x*x) + (y*y));
		if (z <= 1)
			++score;
	}
	pi = ((double)score / (double)dart)*4.0;
	std::cout << "After " << i << " throws, average pi is " << pi << std::endl;
	te = steady_clock::now();
	reportTime("pi calculation", te - ts);
}

Results, bottlenecks, and benchmark

It appears my computer's limitation is 2147483647 samples

After 2147483647 throws, average pi is 3.14152
pi calculation - took - 223.884 secs

n	first	second	third	average
10000	0.0156s	0.0156s	0s	0.0104s
100000	0.1092s	0.1092s	0.1092s	0.1092s
1000000	1.0452s	1.0296s	1.0452s	1.04s
10000000	10.299s	10.2542s	10.4092s	10.3208s
100000000	102.19s	103.553s	103.728s	103.157s
2147483647	223.884s	223.996s	222.882s	223.5873s

Summary

The Big-O Classification for serial pi calculator (estimate) appears to be O(1) run time.

Part 2 of Pi

Interesting enough, I had stumbled upon a monte carlo pi calculation written with "Parallel.For" to speed up the sampling using multi-threads (concurrency) on the CPU. I figured I'll compare my results to this with the serial program I was working on. Since this part is part of the parallelization of the program, I will be posting in the part 2 of the assignment.

Article link

Source File

the source code can be found at github

Code Snippet

int main()
{
	srand(time(NULL));
	const int N1 = 1000;
	const int N2 = 100000;
	int n = 0;
	int c = 0;
	Concurrency::critical_section cs;
	// it is better that N1 >> N2 for better performance
	Concurrency::parallel_for(0, N1, [&](int i)
	{
		int t = monte_carlo_count_pi(N2);
		cs.lock(); // race condition
		n += N2;   // total sampling points
		c += t;    // points fall in the circle
		cs.unlock();
	});
	cout << "pi ~= " << setprecision(9) << (double)c / n * 4.0 << endl;
	return 0;

}

When comparing the serial version and the parallel.for version of pi's usage of the CPU resource. You can see the CPU concurrency version demonstrates the benefit of multi-core processors.

kernel CUDA version work in progress...and comparasions

Code Snippet of kernel

__global__ void montecarlo(const double* d_x, const double* d_y, int* d_score) {
	int idx = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;
	if ((d_x[idx]) * (d_x[idx]) +
		(d_y[idx]) * (d_y[idx]) <= 1){
		d_score[idx] = 1;
	}
	else
		d_score[idx] = 0;
}
</code>
Assignment 2
For assignment 2, we have elected to parallelize the image manipulation program that Ryan Mullings looked at for the first assignment. This program preforms algorithms on black and white *.pgm image files.

 original source code
 convert files to *.pgm
 gimp - a program to view *.pgm files
Image Manipulation: Rotation
For all benchmarks, the image was rotated 45 degrees counter clockwise. The following is the example input and output from running one of the tests:

C:\Users\Matt\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\A2\rotate>GPU 1600_900.pgm 1600_900_gpu.pgm
What would you like to do:
[1] Get a Sub Image
[2] Enlarge Image
[3] Shrink Image
[4] Reflect Image
[5] Translate Image
[6] Rotate Image
[7] Negate Image

[0] Quit
6
Enter to what degree you want to rotate the image:
45
method: rotate - cuda (122)
method: rotate - full (168)
What would you like to do:
[1] Get a Sub Image
[2] Enlarge Image
[3] Shrink Image
[4] Reflect Image
[5] Translate Image
[6] Rotate Image
[7] Negate Image

[0] Quit
0
You have chosen to close the progam.
Press any key to continue . . .

All benchmarks were run with the following system specs:

 AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core 3.6 GHz
 Cuda 7.5
 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670
Benchmark


 image size 
 algorithm time - gpu 
 full time - gpu 
 algorithm time - scalar 
 full time - scalar


 500 x 600 
 109ms 
 117ms 
 119ms 
 127ms


 800 x 800 
 113ms 
 127ms 
 254ms 
 256ms


 1600 x 900 
 122ms 
 168ms 
 567ms 
 592ms


 1920 x 1080 
 130ms 
 203ms 
 930ms 
 972ms


 2747 x 1545 
 153ms 
 293ms 
 1704ms 
 1783ms



Scalar Code
void Image::rotateImage(int theta, Image& source) {

    steady_clock::time_point first_start;
    first_start = steady_clock::now();

    int rows = source.N;
    int cols = source.M;

    Image temp(rows, cols, source.Q);

    steady_clock::time_point second_start;
    second_start = steady_clock::now();

    float rads = (theta * 3.14159265) / 180.0;

    for (int r = 0; r < rows; r++) {

        for (int c = 0; c < cols; c++) {

            int new_row = (int)(rows / 2 + ((r - rows / 2) * cos(rads)) - ((c - cols / 2) * sin(rads)));
            int new_col = (int)(cols / 2 + ((r - rows / 2) * sin(rads)) + ((c - cols / 2) * cos(rads)));

            if (inBounds(new_row, new_col)) {

                temp.pixelVal[new_row][new_col] = source.pixelVal[r][c];

            }

        }

    }

    profile("rotate - cuda", steady_clock::now() - second_start);

    for (int r = 0; r < rows; r++) {

        for (int c = 0; c < cols; c++) {

            if (temp.pixelVal[r][c] == 0) {

                temp.pixelVal[r][c] = temp.pixelVal[r][c + 1];

            }

        }

    }

    source = temp;

    profile("rotate - full", steady_clock::now() - first_start);

}

GPU Code
const unsigned ntpb = 1024;

__global__ void kernel_rotate(int * old_image, int * temp_image, float rads, int rows, int cols) {

    int index = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;

    if (index > rows * cols) {

        return;

    }

    int row = index % rows;
    int col = index / rows;

    int new_row = (int)(rows / 2 + ((row - rows / 2) * cos(rads)) - ((col - cols / 2) * sin(rads)));
    int new_col = (int)(cols / 2 + ((row - rows / 2) * sin(rads)) + ((col - cols / 2) * cos(rads)));

    if (!(new_row >= rows || new_row < 0 || new_col >= cols || new_col < 0)) {

        temp_image[rows * new_col + new_row] = old_image[index];

    }

}

void Image::rotateImage(int theta, Image & source) {

    steady_clock::time_point first_start;
    first_start = steady_clock::now();

    int rows = source.N;
    int cols = source.M;

    int nb = (rows * cols + ntpb - 1) / ntpb;

    int * d_temp_image;
    int * d_old_image;

    int * h_temp_image = new int[rows * cols];
    int * h_old_image = new int[rows * cols];

    for (int r = 0; r < rows; r++) {

        for (int c = 0; c < cols; c++) {

            h_old_image[rows * c + r] = source.pixelVal[r][c];
        }

    }

    steady_clock::time_point second_start;
    second_start = steady_clock::now();

    cudaMalloc((void**)&d_old_image, rows * cols * sizeof(int));

    if (!d_old_image) {

        cout << "CUDA: out of memory (d_old_image)" << endl;
        return;

    }

    cudaMalloc((void**)&d_temp_image, rows * cols * sizeof(int));

    if (!d_temp_image) {

        cout << "CUDA: out of memory (d_temp_image)" << endl;
        return;

    }

    cudaMemcpy(d_old_image, h_old_image, rows * cols * sizeof(int), cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);

    dim3 dGrid(nb);
    dim3 dBlock(ntpb);

    kernel_rotate <<<dGrid, dBlock>>>(d_old_image, d_temp_image, (theta * 3.14159265) / 180.0, rows, cols);

    cudaDeviceSynchronize();

    cudaMemcpy(h_temp_image, d_temp_image, rows * cols * sizeof(int), cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);

    profile("rotate - cuda", steady_clock::now() - second_start);

    for (int r = 0; r < rows; r++) {

        for (int c = 0; c < cols; c++) {

            if (h_temp_image[rows * c + r] == 0 && c + 1 < cols)
                source.pixelVal[r][c] = h_temp_image[rows * (c + 1) + r];
            else
                source.pixelVal[r][c] = h_temp_image[rows * c + r];

        }

    }

    profile("rotate - full", steady_clock::now() - first_start);

}

Summary
For the rotation code, at around 500x600 dimensions or 300,000 pixels, the speed is about the same. However, as the image size increases, the scalar code will become much slower in comparison to the GPU code. To parallelize the code, I just used the straight forward tactic of unrolling the two for loops and assigning one thread for what would be each iteration. Since each index of the array was looked at individually, there is no problem doing that. As you can see in the benchmarks, through this process the speed was reduced greatly at higher resolutions.

Assignment 3 (Matt Jang)
Image Rotation
This is the kernel that I had originally made for Assignment 2. To optimize this I wanted to make use of all the techniques that we learned in class like shared memory and the like. Although I wasn't able to take advantage of everything I wanted to do, I was still able to speed up this kernel to preform between 3 and 4 times faster. The following are the steps that I used to optimize.

 Changed the number of threads per block to 128 from 1024. 
 This step was to improve the occupancy. However, the occupancy was already high on my card so this didn't make much of a difference. On the smallest image, the time went from 293μs to 265μs and on the largest image, the time went from 3995μs to 3617μs.
 Optimized out rows/2 and cols/2 into parameters. 
 Since this operation was preformed every single iteration, I figured it would be quicker to pass through that value in the parameters. On the smallest image, the time went from 265μs to 193μs and on the largest image, the time went from 3617μs to 2621μs. 
 Used device functions __cosf and __sinf. 
 In class we had learned that there were special device functions for trigonometry. I figured I would use them but the speed up was much more than I had expected. On the smallest image, the time went from 193μs to 93μs and on the largest image, the time went from 2621μs to 1232μs.
 Optimize uses of __cosf and __sinf. 
 Since using the device functions made such a big change and since there were two identical calls to each, I stored the value of their result in a register and used the register twice. This didn't make such a big change but I am sure that if I had done it before using __cosf and __sinf, the difference would have been much bigger. On the smallest image, the tiem went from 93μs to 91μs and on the largest image, the time went from 1232μs to 1196μs.
 Experimental division optimization. 
 This last optimization made almost no difference but I more wanted to try something new. I changed "int col = index / rows;" to "int col = (index - row) / rows;". The idea is that if the computer gets a whole number from division, it would be a bit faster. I don't fully understand why it worked but there was a consistent speed up of around 0.5% to 1%. On the smallest image, the time went from 91μs to 90μs and on the largest image, the time went from 1196μs to 1191μs.
Kernel Speeds




 Image Size 
 Before 
 After


 500 x 600 
 293μs 
 90μs


 800 x 800 
 613μs 
 188μs


 1600 x 900 
 1359μs 
 408μs


 1920 x 1080 
 2175μs 
 654μs


 2747 x 1545 
 3995μs 
 1191μs

Unoptimized
const unsigned ntpb = 1024;

__global__ void kernel_rotate(int * old_image, int * temp_image, float rads, int rows, int cols) {

    int index = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;

    if (index > rows * cols) {

        return;

    }

    int row = index % rows;
    int col = index / rows;

    int new_row = (int)(rows / 2 + ((row - rows / 2) * cos(rads)) - ((col - cols / 2) * sin(rads)));
    int new_col = (int)(cols / 2 + ((row - rows / 2) * sin(rads)) + ((col - cols / 2) * cos(rads)));

    if (!(new_row >= rows || new_row < 0 || new_col >= cols || new_col < 0)) {

        temp_image[rows * new_col + new_row] = old_image[index];

    }

}

Optimized
const unsigned ntpb = 128;

__global__ void kernel_rotate(int * old_image, int * temp_image, float rads, int rows, int cols, int half_rows, int half_cols, int rows_x_cols) {

    int index = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;

    if (index > rows_x_cols) {

        return;

    }

    int row = index % rows;
    int col = (index - row) / rows;

    float cosf_rads = __cosf(rads);
    float sinf_rads = __sinf(rads);

    int new_row = (int)(half_rows + ((row - half_rows) * cosf_rads) - ((col - half_cols) * sinf_rads));
    int new_col = (int)(half_cols + ((row - half_rows) * sinf_rads) + ((col - half_cols) * cosf_rads));

    if (!(new_row >= rows || new_row < 0 || new_col >= cols || new_col < 0)) {

        temp_image[rows * new_col + new_row] = old_image[index];

    }
}

Image Reflection
Since I wasn't able to do too many big optimization techniques with the image rotation, I decided to do an additional image manipulation function. Although I still wasn't able to use shared memory to make anything faster, I was able to try one or two new things.

 Split the reflection into two kernels. 
 This is the most obvious of the optimizations. Since there are two distinct operations (horizontal flip, vertical flip), it only makes sense to have one kernel for each. Each kernel would be optimized for each one. On the smallest image, the time went from 59μs to 47μs and on the largest image the time went from 711μs to 629μs.
 Only process half the image. 
 This is also the other obvious optimization. Instead of going through each pixel and flipping each one to a temporary array, I would only iterate through half of them and swap each pixel with the one on the other side. There was one catch to this optimization. For the two different kernels, I had to populate my one dimensional array as either row major or column major order. This was so that the first half of index were either the top side or the left side. That way, on each of the horizontal and vertical kernels, I just had to subtract either rows or cols from a value. The memory access is also sequential. On the smallest image, the time went from 47μs to 31μs and on the largest image, the time went from 629μs to 416μs.
Kernel Speeds




 Image Size 
 Before 
 After


 500 x 600 
 59μs 
 31μs


 800 x 800 
 110μs 
 63μs


 1600 x 900 
 244μs 
 141μs


 1920 x 1080 
 388μs 
 219μs


 2747 x 1545 
 711μs 
 416μs

Unoptimized
__global__ void kernel_reflect(int * old_image, int * temp_image, bool flag, int rows, int cols) { 

    int index = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;

    if (index > rows * cols) {

        return;

    }

    int row = index % rows;
    int col = index / rows;

    int new_row = 0;
    int new_col = 0;

    if (flag) {

        new_row = row;
        new_col = cols - col;

    }

    else {

        new_row = rows - row;
        new_col = col;

    }

    temp_image[rows * new_col + new_row] = old_image[index];

}

Optimized
const int reflect_ntpb = 128;

__global__ void kernel_reflect_horizontal(int * old_image, int rows, int cols, int half_cols) {

    int index = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;

    if (index > rows * half_cols) {

        return;

    }

    int other_index = rows * (cols - index / rows) + index % rows;

    int temp = old_image[other_index];
    old_image[other_index] = old_image[index];
    old_image[index] = temp;

}

__global__ void kernel_reflect_vertical(int * old_image, int rows, int half_rows, int cols) {

    int index = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;

    if (index > half_rows * cols) {

        return;

    }

    int other_index = ((rows - index / cols) * cols) + index % cols;

    int temp = old_image[other_index];
    old_image[other_index] = old_image[index];
    old_image[index] = temp;

}

long long Image::reflectImage(bool flag, Image & source) {

    int rows = source.N;
    int cols = source.M;

    int half_cols = cols / 2;
    int half_rows = rows / 2;

    int nb = 0;

    if (flag)
        nb = (rows * half_cols + reflect_ntpb - 1) / reflect_ntpb;

    else
        nb = (half_rows * cols + reflect_ntpb - 1) / reflect_ntpb;

    int * d_old_image;
    int * h_old_image = new int[rows * cols];

    if (flag) {

        for (int r = 0; r < rows; r++)
            for (int c = 0; c < cols; c++)
                h_old_image[rows * c + r] = source.pixelVal[r][c];

    }

    else {

        for (int r = 0; r < rows; r++)
            for (int c = 0; c < cols; c++)
                h_old_image[cols * r + c] = source.pixelVal[r][c];

    }

    cudaMalloc((void**)&d_old_image, rows * cols * sizeof(int));

    if (!d_old_image) {

        cudaDeviceReset();
        cout << "CUDA: out of memory (d_old_image)" << endl;
        return -1;

    }

    high_resolution_clock::time_point first_start;
    first_start = high_resolution_clock::now();

    cudaMemcpy(d_old_image, h_old_image, rows * cols * sizeof(int), cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);

    dim3 dGrid(nb);
    dim3 dBlock(reflect_ntpb);

    if (flag)
        kernel_reflect_horizontal << <dGrid, dBlock >> >(d_old_image, rows, cols, half_cols);

    else
        kernel_reflect_vertical << <dGrid, dBlock >> >(d_old_image, rows, half_rows, cols);

    cudaDeviceSynchronize();

    cudaMemcpy(h_old_image, d_old_image, rows * cols * sizeof(int), cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);

    cudaDeviceSynchronize();

    if (flag) {

        for (int r = 0; r < rows; r++)
            for (int c = 0; c < cols; c++)
                source.pixelVal[r][c] = h_old_image[rows * c + r];

    }

    else {

        for (int r = 0; r < rows; r++)
            for (int c = 0; c < cols; c++)
                source.pixelVal[r][c] = h_old_image[cols * r + c];

    }

    auto duration = duration_cast<milliseconds>(high_resolution_clock::now() - first_start);

    cudaFree(d_old_image);

    cudaDeviceReset();

    return duration.count();
    
}

Conclusions

With this project, I had originally expected to get a bigger speed difference when optimizing one way or another but it turns out that it isn't so easy to do. I was never able to get any meaningful results using shared memory in these kernels because every pixel is only looked at once. My optimization benchmarks came from NSIGHT so they didn't include the code I had that created and read the 1D arrays so if I were to want to make a very fast image library, I would want to read and store data in the same way that the kernels expect it to avoid that overhead.

image size	algorithm time - gpu	full time - gpu	algorithm time - scalar	full time - scalar
500 x 600	109ms	117ms	119ms	127ms
800 x 800	113ms	127ms	254ms	256ms
1600 x 900	122ms	168ms	567ms	592ms
1920 x 1080	130ms	203ms	930ms	972ms
2747 x 1545	153ms	293ms	1704ms	1783ms

Image Size	Before	After
500 x 600	293μs	90μs
800 x 800	613μs	188μs
1600 x 900	1359μs	408μs
1920 x 1080	2175μs	654μs
2747 x 1545	3995μs	1191μs

Image Size	Before	After
500 x 600	59μs	31μs
800 x 800	110μs	63μs
1600 x 900	244μs	141μs
1920 x 1080	388μs	219μs
2747 x 1545	711μs	416μs

GPU610/TeamKappa

Contents

Team Kappa

Team Members

Assignment 1

Program 1: RSA Encryption

Profiling

Bottleneck Code

Ryan Mullings: Program 2-Image Manipulation Processor

Program 3: Serial pi Calculation - C version

Source file

Hardware and software

Profiling

Code Snippet

Plans

Problem

Code

Results, bottlenecks, and benchmark

Summary

Part 2 of Pi

Source File

Code Snippet

Code Snippet of kernel

Assignment 2

Image Manipulation: Rotation

Benchmark

Scalar Code

GPU Code

Summary

Assignment 3 (Matt Jang)

Image Rotation

Kernel Speeds

Unoptimized

Optimized

Image Reflection

Kernel Speeds

Unoptimized

Optimized

Conclusions

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