GPU Acceleration of the Scientific Data Analysis Package GDL
Aaron Jaffey, A. Kobashi, Mark C. M. Cheung, Lockheed Martin Solar · 2009
GDL is an open-source scientific data analysis package compatible with the syntax of IDL, the interactive programming language commonly used by members of the astronomy community. The interactive nature of GDL allows users to perform mathematical operations on large numerical data arrays and then to conveniently display the results in graphical form. Many of the mathematical operations supported by GDL involve independent operations on the individual elements of arrays (matrices), which makes them suitable for parallelization by means of multithreading.