A study of persistent threads style GPU programming for GPGPU workloads

2012 Innovative Parallel Computing, InPar 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Gupta, Kshitij ^a   Stuart, Jeff A ^a   Owens, John D ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL DEFINITION; GLOBAL SYNCHRONIZATION; GPU PROGRAMMING; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; PERFORMANCE LOSS; PROGRAMMING STYLES; USAGE SCENARIOS;

BENCHMARKING; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 84870690379     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/InPar.2012.6339596     Document Type: Conference Paper

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