«Life» in Tensor: Implementing Cellular Automata on Graphics Adapters

• Published in: Труды Института системного программирования РАН
• Main Authors: Natalia Andreevna Shalyapina, Maxim Leolidovitch Gromov
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Russian Academy of Sciences, Ivannikov Institute for System Programming 2019-09-01
• Subjects: клеточный автомат, игра «жизнь», тензор
• Online Access: https://ispranproceedings.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/1171

This paper presents an approach to the description of cellular automata using tensors. This approach allows to attract various frameworks for organizing scientific calculations on high-performance graphics adapter processors, that is, to automatically build parallel software implementations of cellular automata. In our work, we use the TensorFlow framework to organize computations on NVIDIA graphics adapters. As an example cellular automaton we used Conway's Game of Life The effect of the described approach to the cellular automata implementation is estimated experimentally.