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Lecture 4 - GPU Architecture and Programming

CPUs are designed for sequential serial processing while GPUs have a highly parallel structure designed for manipulating computer graphics and image processing. GPUs have hundreds to thousands of smaller, more efficient cores compared to CPUs which have only a few cores but are faster at sequential tasks. While CPUs have been optimized for flexibility, GPUs are optimized for throughput on highly parallel workloads like graphics rendering where the same operations are performed on many data elements in parallel.

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Lecture 4 - GPU Architecture and Programming

CPUs are designed for sequential serial processing while GPUs have a highly parallel structure designed for manipulating computer graphics and image processing. GPUs have hundreds to thousands of smaller, more efficient cores compared to CPUs which have only a few cores but are faster at sequential tasks. While CPUs have been optimized for flexibility, GPUs are optimized for throughput on highly parallel workloads like graphics rendering where the same operations are performed on many data elements in parallel.

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CS-423 Parallel and Distributed Computing

Lecture 4
GPU Architecture and Programming
Agenda
• GPU
• CPU vs. GPU
• Traditional Workflow
• CUDA
• Thread Hierarchy
• CUDA Memory Hierarchy
• Myths about CUDA
GPU
• Graphics Processing Unit
• Originally designed as a graphics processor

• Nvidia'sGeForce 256 (1999) –first GPU


• single-chip processor for mathematically-intensive tasks
• transforms of vertices and polygons
• lighting
• polygon clipping
• texture mapping
• polygon rendering  3D Model to 2D image (Model: Mathematical Representation of image)
CPU vs GPU

Core: A small CPU or processor built into a big CPU or CPU socket. It can independently perform or process all
computational tasks. A core is considered to be a smaller CPU within a big processor.
CPU vs GPU
CPU vs GPU
Recall:

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