OpenCL host-side memory model
Abstract
This chapter presents OpenCL’s host-side memory model, relating to the allocation and management of memory objects. It also provides an introduction to OpenCL’s support for shared virtual memory.
Keywords
buffer
image
pipe
shared virtual memory
memory management
memory allocation
In order to be portable across a variety of hardware, OpenCL provides a well-defined abstract memory model. The abstract memory model is general enough to map to a wide range of devices, yet provides strong enough memory ordering guarantees to express classes of parallelism important to developers. Providing an abstract memory model also serves as a clean interface between programmers and hardware. Using the abstract ...
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