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Programming Massively Parallel Processors, 3rd Edition
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Programming Massively Parallel Processors, 3rd Edition

by David B. Kirk, Wen-mei W. Hwu
November 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
18h 22m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter 20

More on CUDA and graphics processing unit computing

Mark Harris and Isaac Gelado

Abstract

This chapter presents a brief history of the evolution of and future outlook for CUDA. It clarifies the capabilities and limitations in several generations of the host-device interaction model, including zero-copy, unified virtual address space, and unified memory. It further presents the additional functionalities enabled by the recent ability to handle page faults during kernel execution. The chapter also presents the evolution of kernel execution efficiency and multiple kernel execution support. It concludes with an update on the recent advancement in programming, profiling, and debugging environments

Keywords

Unified memory

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ISBN: 9780128119877