Aspects Related to Data Access and Transfer in CUDA Slides 2014 (TR 2014 09)

ASPECTS RELATED TO DATA ACCESS AND TRANSFER IN CUDADan Negrut, Radu Serban, Ang Li, Andrew SeidlSimulation-Based Engineering LabUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison:copyright:2014Simulation-Based Engineering LabUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonSummary / Objective• Premise: Managing and optimizing host-device data transfers has been challenging• Key point: Unified Memory (UM) support in CUDA 6 simplifies the programmer’s job• The presentation’s two goals: • Briefly review history of CUDA host/device me