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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW), 2012 41st International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pittsburgh, PA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2509-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICPPW.2012.94
