Introduction to GPU Architecture
• Definition of GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)
• - Originally designed for rendering graphics
but now used for general-purpose computing.
• - Massively parallel operations for tasks like
image processing and deep learning.
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• Evolution of GPU Use in Computing
• - Transition from graphics-only to GPGPU
(General-Purpose computing on GPUs).
Detailed GPU Hardware
Architecture
• Core Components of a GPU
• - Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs) with
CUDA cores.
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• Warp-Based Execution
• - Warp: A group of 32 threads executed
simultaneously.
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• Memory Hierarchy
CUDA Programming Model
• What is CUDA?
• - Parallel computing platform and API for
NVIDIA GPUs.
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• Basic Building Blocks
• - Kernels, Threads, Blocks, and Grids.
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• Memory Management in CUDA
• - Global, Shared, and Local memory types.
OpenCL Programming Model
• Introduction to OpenCL
• - Open standard for heterogeneous
platforms (GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs).
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• Key Concepts of OpenCL
• - Platforms, Devices, Command Queues, and
Kernels.
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• Comparison Between CUDA and OpenCL
Parallel Computing with GPUs
• Parallel Computing Paradigms
• - Data Parallelism and Task Parallelism.
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• Thread-Level Parallelism
• - Thousands of threads executing in parallel.
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• Warp Scheduling and Thread Divergence
• - Divergence reduces performance.
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Advanced Optimization Techniques
in GPU Programming
• Shared Memory Usage
• - Reducing global memory accesses.
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• Minimizing Thread Divergence
• - Avoiding branching in warps.
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• Occupancy Optimization
• - Maximizing active warps for performance.
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Multi-GPU Programming and
Scaling
• Introduction to Multi-GPU Systems
• - Combining multiple GPUs for larger tasks.
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• Programming Multi-GPU Systems
• - CUDA Streams, Unified Memory, and
NCCL.
• Challenges of Multi-GPU Programming
• - Data communication, workload
Applications of GPUs in High-
Performance Computing and
Machine Learning
• Deep Learning and Neural Networks
• - GPUs accelerate matrix multiplications in
neural networks.
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• Scientific Simulations
• - GPUs for weather, fluid dynamics, and
molecular simulations.
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• Cryptography and Blockchain
Future Trends in GPU Architecture
and Programming
• Next-Generation GPU Architectures
• - NVIDIA Hopper, AMD RDNA3, and AI
integration.
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• Energy Efficiency and Performance Scaling
• - Power-efficient GPUs for exascale
computing.
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• Heterogeneous Computing
