ExtremeTech

The future of AMD's Fusion APUs: Kaveri will fully share memory between CPU and GPU

AMD is hosting its Fusion Developer Summit this week, and the overarching theme is heterogeneous computing and the convergence of the CPU and GPU. Is shared memory and true heterogeneous computing the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Efficient Multi-GPU Shared Memory via Automatic Optimization of Fine-Grained Transfers

Harini Muthukrishnan (U of Michigan); David Nellans, Daniel Lustig (NVIDIA); Jeffrey A. Fessler, Thomas Wenisch (U of Michigan). Abstract—”Despite continuing research into inter-GPU communication ...
Electronic Design

Unified CPU/GPU Memory Architecture Raises The Performance Bar

Also, HSA provides the same cache coherency and virtual memory mapping between all CPUs and GPUs (Fig. 2). This is significant because it means less translation between data shared between CPU and GPU ...
Unite.AI

Five Steps to Turn Memory From AI’s Biggest Constraint Into a Competitive Advantage

For the past few years, AI infrastructure has focused on compute above all other metrics. More accelerators, larger clusters ...
ExtremeTech

AMD's next-gen APU unifies CPU/GPU memory, should appear in Kaveri, Xbox 720, PS4

AMD confirmed that Kaveri will be the first chip to use its upcoming HSA features and combined CPU/GPU capabilities -- but the next-generation Xbox and PS4 could have these features, too. Share on ...
The Next Platform

Nvidia Gooses Grace-Hopper GPU Memory, Gangs Them Up For LLM

If large language models are the foundation of a new programming model, as Nvidia and many others believe it is, then the hybrid CPU-GPU compute engine is the new general purpose computing platform.