VCUDA: GPU-accelerated high-performance computing in virtual machines

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 804-816

  Shi, Lin ^a   Chen, Hao ^a   Sun, Jianhua ^a   Li, Kenli ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CUDA; GPGPU; RPC; virtual machine; virtualization

Indexed keywords

CUDA; GPGPU; RPC; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; HARDWARE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84860524424     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2011.112     Document Type: Article

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