Lecture 2 â Threads - many-core.group
Lecture 2 â Threads - many-core.group
Lecture 2 â Threads - many-core.group
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What is happening on the hardware?<br />
• The <strong>core</strong>s (Scalar Processors – SPs) of the CUDA GPU are <strong>group</strong>ed<br />
into Streaming Multiprocessors – SMs – each with 8 SPs.<br />
• Each SM has 16kB of shared memory<br />
• All threads of a thread block will be scheduled on the same SM<br />
• More than one block can reside on the same SM at the same time –<br />
provided there is enough memory on the SM