%0 Generic %D 2011 %T Implementation on CUDA of the Smoothing Problem with Tissue-Like P Systems %A Francisco Peña-Cantillana %A Daniel Díaz-Pernil %A Hepzibah A. Christinal %A Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo %C Hershey, Pennsylvania (USA) %I IGI Global %N 3 %P 25-34 %R 10.4018/jncr.2011070103 %U http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/article.aspx?titleid=58064 %V 2 %X Smoothing is often used in Digital Imagery for improving the quality of an image by reducing its level of noise. This paper presents a parallel implementation of an algorithm for smoothing 2D images in the framework of Membrane Computing. The chosen formal framework has been tissue-like P systems. The algorithm has been implemented by using a novel device architecture called CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) which allows the parallel NVIDIA Graphics Processors Units (GPUs) to solve many complex computational problems. Some examples are presented and compared; research lines for the future are also discussed.