… for running GPU programs. We implement ActivePointers, a software address translation layer
… for page faults and virtual address space management to GPU programs, and enables the …

… for running GPU programs. We implement ActivePointers, a software address translation layer
… for page faults and virtual address space management to GPU programs, and enables the …

… ActivePointers [51] introduces a software address translation layer on GPUs that supports
page fault handling without CPU involvement. However, system abstractions for GPUs are …

… in multi-GPU systems receives little attention. In this paper, we conduct a … of the
address translation efficiency in both “single-application-multi-GPU” and “multi-application-multi-GPU” …

… page table invalidation requests to GPUs that hold the corresponding address translation (ii)
… , we provide a detailed discussion of address translations in multi-GPU systems (Section 3) …

… Particularly, we observe that GPU execution suffers from … mechanisms for address translations
to improve GPU TLB hit … cution of GPU applications to design efficient address translation …

… software overhead involved in the virtual address translation … from the GPU memory and
needs to be brought into GPU from … ActivePointers [41] added a memory-map like abstraction on …

… Next, we compare BaM and ActivePointers [57]. … ActivePointers, the file is pinned in the
Linux page cache in CPU memory, favoring ActivePointers as any misses in the ActivePointers …

… memory access due to the extra level of address translation. In our solution, we retrofit the
ActivePointers software address translation mechanism used in GPUs [25]. Spointers provide …

… Silberstein, “Activepointers: a case for software address translation on gpus,” in Proceedings
of the 43rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2016. [29] M. Silberstein, B. …