General-Purpose Graphics Processor Architectures - Brossura

Aamodt, Tor M.; Fung, Wilson Wai Lun; Rogers, Timothy G.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1627059237 ISBN 13: 9781627059237

Casa editrice: Morgan & Claypool, 2018

Riassunto

<p>Originally developed to support video games, graphics processor units (GPUs) are now increasingly used for general-purpose (non-graphics) applications ranging from machine learning to mining of cryptographic currencies. GPUs can achieve improved performance and efficiency versus central processing units (CPUs) by dedicating a larger fraction of hardware resources to computation. In addition, their general-purpose programmability makes contemporary GPUs appealing to software developers in comparison to domain-specific accelerators. This book provides an introduction to those interested in studying the architecture of GPUs that support general-purpose computing. It collects together information currently only found among a wide range of disparate sources. The authors led development of the GPGPU-Sim simulator widely used in academic research on GPU architectures.</p><p>The first chapter of this book describes the basic hardware structure of GPUs and provides a brief overview of their history. Chapter 2 provides a summary of GPU programming models relevant to the rest of the book. Chapter 3 explores the architecture of GPU compute cores. Chapter 4 explores the architecture of the GPU memory system. After describing the architecture of existing systems, Chapters \ref{ch03} and \ref{ch04} provide an overview of related research. Chapter 5 summarizes cross-cutting research impacting both the compute core and memory system.</p><p>This book should provide a valuable resource for those wishing to understand the architecture of graphics processor units (GPUs) used for acceleration of general-purpose applications and to those who want to obtain an introduction to the rapidly growing body of research exploring how to improve the architecture of these GPUs.</p>

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Morgan & Claypool
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1627059237
• ISBN 13: 9781627059237
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 122
• Redattore: Martonosi Margaret
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile