DocumentCode
1919676
Title
Plasma: Shared Memory Dynamic Allocation and Bank-Conflict-Free Access in GPUs
Author
Farivar, Reza ; Campbell, Roy H.
Author_Institution
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
fYear
2012
fDate
10-13 Sept. 2012
Firstpage
612
Lastpage
613
Abstract
In this paper we present a library for shared-memory dynamic allocation and bank-conflict free accesses for NVIDIA GPUs. The system allows an order of magnitude faster pointer chasing operations for small and medium sized arrays.
Keywords
access control; graphics processing units; shared memory systems; NVIDIA GPU; Plasma; bank-conflict-free access; library; shared memory dynamic allocation; Graphics processing unit; Indexes; Instruction sets; Kernel; Libraries; Plasmas; Resource management;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW), 2012 41st International Conference on
Conference_Location
Pittsburgh, PA
ISSN
1530-2016
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-2509-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICPPW.2012.94
Filename
6337542
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