A Parallel Algorithm for the Counting of Ellipses Present in Conglomerates Using GPU

Table 1

Types of memory available in a GPU with CUDA and the speeds they support. Data obtained from reference in [11].

	Registers	Shared memory	Texture memory	Constant memory	Global memory
Bandwidth	~8 TB/s	~1.5 TB/s	~200 MB/s	~200 MB/s	~200 MB/s
Latency	1 cycle	1 to 32 cycles	~400 to 600	~400 to 600	~400 to 600