Accelerating Forward Algorithm for Stochastic Automata on Graphics Processing Units

Abstract

A stochastic automaton is a non-deterministic automata with input and output behavior which works serially and synchronously. Stochastic automata is being used in different application areas. For large state space and sequence lengths, performance of stochastic automata is a major concern. For this purpose, graphics processing units can be employed to improve the performance. In this study, a parallel version of inference algorithm for stochastic automata is designed. The parallel version is mapped to graphics processing unit using the dynamic parallelism. The performance of parallel version is compared with different realizations and parameters. Parallel implementation of inference algorithm achieved approximately speedup factor of 50 for 256 states.

Keywords

• Stochastic automata
• CUDA
• GPU
• forward algorithm
• parallelization