Lecture 12 Flashcards
1
Q
Keep active threads together - better!
A
Threads and memory both behave like this for coalescing
2
Q
__manage__ memory
A
accessible from both CPU and GPU
3
Q
atomic operations
A
atomicAdd, atomicSub, AromicExch, atomicMin,
atomicMax, atomicInc, atomicDec, atomicCAS,
atomicAND, atomicOR, atomicXor
4
Q
why don’t always use atomic operations?
A
leads to sequential performances
