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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. • • 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. • • Warp-Based Execution • - Warp: A group of 32 threads executed simultaneously. • • Memory Hierarchy CUDA Programming Model • What is CUDA? • - Parallel computing platform and API for NVIDIA GPUs. • • Basic Building Blocks • - Kernels, Threads, Blocks, and Grids. • • Memory Management in CUDA • - Global, Shared, and Local memory types. OpenCL Programming Model • Introduction to OpenCL • - Open standard for heterogeneous platforms (GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs). • • Key Concepts of OpenCL • - Platforms, Devices, Command Queues, and Kernels. • • Comparison Between CUDA and OpenCL Parallel Computing with GPUs • Parallel Computing Paradigms • - Data Parallelism and Task Parallelism. • • Thread-Level Parallelism • - Thousands of threads executing in parallel. • • Warp Scheduling and Thread Divergence • - Divergence reduces performance. • Advanced Optimization Techniques in GPU Programming • Shared Memory Usage • - Reducing global memory accesses. • • Minimizing Thread Divergence • - Avoiding branching in warps. • • Occupancy Optimization • - Maximizing active warps for performance. • Multi-GPU Programming and Scaling • Introduction to Multi-GPU Systems • - Combining multiple GPUs for larger tasks. • • 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. • • Scientific Simulations • - GPUs for weather, fluid dynamics, and molecular simulations. • • Cryptography and Blockchain Future Trends in GPU Architecture and Programming • Next-Generation GPU Architectures • - NVIDIA Hopper, AMD RDNA3, and AI integration. • • Energy Efficiency and Performance Scaling • - Power-efficient GPUs for exascale computing. • • Heterogeneous Computing