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GPUfs: the case for operating system services on GPUs

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Mark Silberstein,

Bryan Ford,

Emmett WitchelAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 57, Issue 12

Pages 68 - 79

https://doi.org/10.1145/2656206

Published: 26 November 2014 Publication History

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The GPUfs file system layer for GPU software makes core operating system abstractions available to GPU code.

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Communications of the ACM Volume 57, Issue 12

December 2014

92 pages

ISSN:0001-0782

EISSN:1557-7317

DOI:10.1145/2692965

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