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+from time import time
+import matplotlib
+#this will prevent the figure from popping up
+matplotlib.use('Agg')
+from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
+import numpy as np
+import pycuda.autoinit
+from pycuda import gpuarray
+from pycuda.elementwise import ElementwiseKernel
+
+mandel_ker = ElementwiseKernel(
+"pycuda::complex<float> *lattice, float *mandelbrot_graph, int max_iters, float upper_bound",
+"""
+mandelbrot_graph[i] = 1;
+
+pycuda::complex<float> c = lattice[i]; 
+pycuda::complex<float> z(0,0);
+
+for (int j = 0; j < max_iters; j++)
+    {
+    
+     z = z*z + c;
+     
+     if(abs(z) > upper_bound)
+         {
+          mandelbrot_graph[i] = 0;
+          break;
+         }
+
+    }
+         
+""",
+"mandel_ker")
+
+def gpu_mandelbrot(width, height, real_low, real_high, imag_low, imag_high, max_iters, upper_bound):
+
+    # we set up our complex lattice as such
+    real_vals = np.matrix(np.linspace(real_low, real_high, width), dtype=np.complex64)
+    imag_vals = np.matrix(np.linspace( imag_high, imag_low, height), dtype=np.complex64) * 1j
+    mandelbrot_lattice = np.array(real_vals + imag_vals.transpose(), dtype=np.complex64)    
+    
+    # copy complex lattice to the GPU
+    mandelbrot_lattice_gpu = gpuarray.to_gpu(mandelbrot_lattice)
+
+    # allocate an empty array on the GPU
+    mandelbrot_graph_gpu = gpuarray.empty(shape=mandelbrot_lattice.shape, dtype=np.float32)
+
+    mandel_ker( mandelbrot_lattice_gpu, mandelbrot_graph_gpu, np.int32(max_iters), np.float32(upper_bound))
+              
+    mandelbrot_graph = mandelbrot_graph_gpu.get()
+    
+    return mandelbrot_graph
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+
+    t1 = time()
+    mandel = gpu_mandelbrot(512,512,-2,2,-2,2,256, 2)
+    t2 = time()
+
+    mandel_time = t2 - t1
+
+    t1 = time()
+    fig = plt.figure(1)
+    plt.imshow(mandel, extent=(-2, 2, -2, 2))
+    plt.savefig('mandelbrot.png', dpi=fig.dpi)
+    t2 = time()
+
+    dump_time = t2 - t1
+
+    print ('It took {} seconds to calculate the Mandelbrot graph.'.format(mandel_time))
+    print ('It took {} seconds to dump the image.'.format(dump_time))