X-Git-Url: https://bilbo.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/and/gitweb/book_gpu.git/blobdiff_plain/fa1939d2294b408e8a62f2d91149f369f8710113..453cfeb12ac41d9063d5fb8f41ee725905b3adec:/BookGPU/Chapters/chapter1/ch1.tex?ds=inline diff --git a/BookGPU/Chapters/chapter1/ch1.tex b/BookGPU/Chapters/chapter1/ch1.tex index 17a7e47..200efb1 100755 --- a/BookGPU/Chapters/chapter1/ch1.tex +++ b/BookGPU/Chapters/chapter1/ch1.tex @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ \chapterauthor{Raphaël Couturier}{Femto-ST Institute, University of Franche-Comte, France} -\chapter{Presentation of the GPU architecture and of the Cuda environment} +\chapter{Presentation of the GPU architecture and of the CUDA environment} \label{chapter1} \section{Introduction}\label{ch1:intro} @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ 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 -the development of Graphics card until they have been used in order to make +the development of the graphics cards until they have been used in order to make general purpose computation. Then the architecture of a GPU is illustrated. There are many fundamental differences between a GPU and a tradition processor. In order to benefit from the power of a GPU, a Cuda @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Cuda model to be efficient and scalable when some constraints are addressed. -\section{Brief history of Video Card} +\section{Brief history of video card} Video cards or Graphics cards have been introduced in personal computers to produce high quality graphics faster than classical Central Processing Units @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ Task parallelism is the common parallelism achieved out on clusters and grids a high performance architectures where different tasks are executed by different computing units. -\section{Cuda Multithreading} +\section{CUDA multithreading} The data parallelism of Cuda is more precisely based on the Single Instruction Multiple Thread (SIMT) model. This is due to the fact that a programmer accesses