Data Parallel C++: Mastering DPC++ for Programming of Heterogeneous Systems using C++ and SYCL

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7. Buffers

James Reinders¹ , Ben Ashbaugh², James Brodman³, Michael Kinsner⁴, John Pennycook⁵ and Xinmin Tian⁶

(1)

Beaverton, OR, USA

(2)

Folsom, CA, USA

(3)

Marlborough, MA, USA

(4)

Halifax, NS, Canada

(5)

San Jose, CA, USA

(6)

Fremont, CA, USA

 

In this chapter, we will learn about the buffer abstraction. We learned about Unified Shared Memory (USM), the pointer-based strategy for data management, in the previous chapter. USM forces us to think about where memory lives and what should be accessible where. The buffer abstraction is a higher-level model that ...