A quantitative study of irregular programs on GPUs

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, IISWC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 141-151

  Burtscher, Martin ^a   Nasre, Rupesh ^b   Pingali, Keshav ^b  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL FLOWS; CONTROL-FLOW; MEMORY ACCESS PATTERNS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 84873458159     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IISWC.2012.6402918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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