Description
We present GPE, a GPU-accelerated parameter estimation package for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence sources. This stand-alone program is adapted from the nested sampling flavor of LALInference. Two main parallelization methods are implemented: (1) the frequency-domain waveform and likelihood calculations, (2) and the prior sampling portion in the nested sampling algorithm. We show that GPE can produce consistent results compared to LALInference, while demonstrating up to x360 times speedup on one GPU compared to LALInference on one CPU. The high acceleration of GPE can facilitate the data-analysis of detected events, simulations for detector observing scenarios, and production of sky localization regions for EM follow-up.
