X-Git-Url: https://bilbo.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/and/gitweb/book_gpu.git/blobdiff_plain/4df8b859fb5445134295e3e7a1df43d911d6d9dd..2ae394d22362fb3f71c54c11871811afcac3eed0:/BookGPU/Chapters/chapter1/ch1.tex?ds=inline diff --git a/BookGPU/Chapters/chapter1/ch1.tex b/BookGPU/Chapters/chapter1/ch1.tex index a70f420..fc891b5 100755 --- a/BookGPU/Chapters/chapter1/ch1.tex +++ b/BookGPU/Chapters/chapter1/ch1.tex @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ \label{chapter1} \section{Introduction}\label{ch1:intro} - +``test" "test" ``test'' This chapter introduces the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) architecture and all the concepts needed to understand how GPUs work and can be used to speed up the execution of some algorithms. First of all this chapter gives a brief history of @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ example we can cite, FireStream by ATI which is not maintained anymore and has been replaced by OpenCL, BrookGPU by Standford University~\cite{ch1:Buck:2004:BGS}. Another environment based on pragma (insertion of pragma directives inside the code to help the compiler to generate efficient code) is called OpenACC. For a -comparison with OpenCL, interested readers may refer to~\cite{ch1:CMR:12}. +comparison with OpenCL, interested readers may refer to~\cite{ch1:Dongarra}. @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ Threads are used to benefit from the large number of cores of a GPU. These threads are different from traditional threads for a CPU. In Chapter~\ref{chapter2}, some examples of GPU programming will explain the details of the GPU threads. Threads are gathered into blocks of 32 -threads, called warps. These warps are important when designing an algorithm +threads, called ``warps''. These warps are important when designing an algorithm for GPU.