Memory model
The OpenCL Memory model guarantees a relaxed memory consistency between devices. This means that different work items may see a different view of global memory as the computation progresses. This leads to a bigger challenge for the developers to partition data and splitting computation tasks into different work items. Synchronization is required to ensure data consistency within the work items of a work group. One needs to make sure that the data the work item is accessing is always correct. This makes the application developers task a little complicated to write applications with relaxed consistency, and hence explicit synchronization mechanisms are required.
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