Architecture comparisons between Nvidia and ATI GPUs: Computation parallelism and data communications

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, IISWC - 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 205-215

  Zhang, Ying ^a   Peng, Lu ^a   Li, Bin ^a   Peir, Jih Kwon ^b   Chen, Jianmin ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

clustering; energy efficiency; GPU; performance

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE COMPARISON; CLUSTERING; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; DATA-COMMUNICATION; GPU; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; LARGE SCALE COMPUTATION; MEMORY SUBSYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; PROCESSOR CORES; SIMILAR DESIGN; TWO-PRODUCT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MANUFACTURE;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 84862917380     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IISWC.2011.6114180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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