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Compiler assisted hybrid implicit and explicit GPU memory management under unified address space

Li et al., 2019

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10493100907833419916
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Li L
Chapman B
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Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

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To improve programmability and productivity, recent GPUs adopt a virtual memory address space shared with CPUs (eg, NVIDIA's unified memory). Unified memory migrates the data management burden from programmers to system software and hardware, and enables …
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