Chapter 12
Application Case StudyMolecular Visualization and Analysis
Chapter Outline
12.1 Application Background
12.2 A Simple Kernel Implementation
12.3 Thread Granularity Adjustment
12.4 Memory Coalescing
12.5 Summary
12.6 Exercises
The previous case study illustrated the process of selecting an appropriate level of a loop nest for parallel execution, the use of constant memory for magnifying the memory bandwidth for read-only data, the use of registers to reduce the consumption of memory bandwidth, and the use of special hardware functional units to accelerate trigonometry functions. In this case study, we use an application based on regular grid data structures to illustrate the use of additional ...
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