Parallel Computing Experiences with CUDA

  • Authors:
  • Michael Garland;Scott Le Grand;John Nickolls;Joshua Anderson;Jim Hardwick;Scott Morton;Everett Phillips;Yao Zhang;Vasily Volkov

  • Affiliations:
  • NVIDIA;NVIDIA;NVIDIA;Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory;TechniScan Medical Systems;Hess;University of California, Davis;University of California, Davis;University of California, Berkeley

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The CUDA programming model provides a straightforward means of describing inherently parallel computations, and NVIDIA's Tesla GPU architecture delivers high computational throughput on massively parallel problems. This article surveys experiences gained in applying CUDA to a diverse set of problems and the parallel speedups over sequential codes running on traditional CPU architectures attained by executing key computations on the GPU.