• 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