LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1 Floating-Point Operations per Second for the CPU and GPU...................................1 Figure 2 Memory Bandwidth for the cpu and GPU.....................................2 Figure 3 The GPU Devotes More Transistors to Data Processing....................................2 Figure 4 GPU Computing Applications........................ 4 Figure 5 Automatic Scalability............ ..6 Figure 6 Grid of Thread Blocks..................... 10 Figure 7 Memory Hierarchy............ .12 Figure 8 Heterogeneous Programming............. .14 Figure 9 Matrix Multiplication without Shared Memory... …25 Figure 10 Matrix Multiplication with Shared Memory..................................... ..28 Figure 11 The Driver API Is Backward but Not Forward Compatible....... .66 Figure 12 Parent-Child Launch Nesting......................... 141 Figure 13 Nearest-Point Sampling Filtering Mode................ .214 Figure 14 Linear Filtering Mode................... 215 Figure 15 One-Dimensional Table Lookup Using Linear Filtering..... 216 Figure 16 Examples of Global Memory Accesses............. 228 Figure 17 Strided Shared Memory Accesses........... 232 Figure 18 Irregular Shared Memory Accesses............. 233 Figure 19 Library Context Management....... 239 www.nvidia.com CUDA C Programming Guide PG-02829-001_v8.01xiwww.nvidia.com CUDA C Programming Guide PG-02829-001_v8.0 | xiii LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1 Floating-Point Operations per Second for the CPU and GPU ...................................1 Figure 2 Memory Bandwidth for the CPU and GPU .........................................................2 Figure 3 The GPU Devotes More Transistors to Data Processing ......................................... 2 Figure 4 GPU Computing Applications ........................................................................ 4 Figure 5 Automatic Scalability ................................................................................. 6 Figure 6 Grid of Thread Blocks ...............................................................................10 Figure 7 Memory Hierarchy ................................................................................... 12 Figure 8 Heterogeneous Programming ...................................................................... 14 Figure 9 Matrix Multiplication without Shared Memory .................................................. 25 Figure 10 Matrix Multiplication with Shared Memory .....................................................28 Figure 11 The Driver API Is Backward but Not Forward Compatible ................................... 66 Figure 12 Parent-Child Launch Nesting .................................................................... 141 Figure 13 Nearest-Point Sampling Filtering Mode ........................................................214 Figure 14 Linear Filtering Mode ............................................................................ 215 Figure 15 One-Dimensional Table Lookup Using Linear Filtering ...................................... 216 Figure 16 Examples of Global Memory Accesses ......................................................... 228 Figure 17 Strided Shared Memory Accesses ...............................................................232 Figure 18 Irregular Shared Memory Accesses .............................................................233 Figure 19 Library Context Management ................................................................... 239