GPU stands for graphics processing unit, but these tiny chips can be used for much more than just graphics. Google is using GPUs to model the human brain, and Salesforce leans on them as a way of ...

There are few people as visible in high performance computing programming circles as Michael Wolfe—and fewer still with level of experience. With 20 years working on PGI compilers and another 20 years ...

Today's programmable GPUs are the latest instantiation of programmable accelerators. Going back to the 1970s, the Floating Point Systems AP-120 and FPS-164 attached processors provided mainframe ...

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AMD has released a version 6.2 of its ROCm software stack for GPU programming. Global AI GPU Product Marketing Manager Ronak Shah wrote a blog in support of the announcement: Whether you’re working on ...

本节将阐述GPU的内存访问、资源管理等机制。 由此可见，shader直接访问寄存器、L1、L2缓存还是比较快的，但访问纹理、常量缓存和全局内存非常慢，会造成很高的延迟。 上面的多级缓存结构可被称为“CPU-Style”，还存在GPU-Style的内存架构： 这种架构的特点是ALU ...

Concurrent with SC09, PGI is offering the tutorial “GPU Programming with the PGI Accelerator Programming Model and PGI CUDA Fortran”. The tutorial is Monday, 16 November, 2009 in Portland, a few ...

The University of Delaware has been named a GPU Education Center by NVIDIA, a computer technology company that has pioneered GPU-accelerated computing. GPU Education Centers are institutions ...

The graphics architecture Vega from AMD, underlying graphics cards such as the Radeon VII and Radeon PRO VII, is slated for cessation of maintenance support in the ROCm GPU programming software stack.