A High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Simulator implemented using
NVIDIA's Compute Unified Device Architecture
Author: Adam Pan
1. Building
Runtime Requirements:
- CUDA enabled graphics card (Compute 2.0)
- NVIDIA developer drivers
- CUDA Toolkit 3.0
- Boost C++ libraries
- gnuplot 4.x (optional)
- mencoder and ffmpeg (optional)
Build Requirements:
- gcc 4.0+
- Boost C++ headers
To compile the program, use "make".
The binary created will be located in "/bin/[platform]/release/"
2. Usage
The program requires a configuration file to specify the simulation
parameters. A few preconstructed configuration files can be found in
"/confs/".
Example: bubbles confs/Sample.txt
The program outputs the results as plain-text tuples into "/rawdata/".
I've also added some form of automation using shell scripts:
plot_results.sh [x-dimensions, y-dimensions, x-pixels, y-pixels]
plots data outputted by the program, and stores them in
"/images/".
executor.sh [ConfName]
The script looks in the "/confs/" directory for a series of
configuration files matching "ConfName_x.txt", where x is any
integer. It then runs through all the configuration files,
storing the results (as well as plots) in timestamped folders in
"/results/".
3. Notes
The program is threadsafe, and does not interfere with the operation of
CPU bound applications. In addition, multiple instances of the program
may be launched on the same graphics card, although this is not recommended.
Boost Program Options Documentation: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/doc/html/program_options.html
TODO
Multiple configuration files in one run.
Sweeping variable ranges.