Improving the Performance of Document Similarity by using GPU Parallelism

In the information retrieval systems like vector model implementation and document clustering, document similarity calculation takes a great part on the overall performance of the system. In this paper, GPU parallelism has been explored to enhance the processing speed of document similarity calculation in a CUDA framework. The proposed method increased the similarity calculation speed almost 15 times better compared to the typical CPU-based framework. It is 5.2 and 3.4 times better than the methods by using CUBLAS and Thrust, respectively.