⑨CUDA "Compute Unified Device Architecture General purpose programming model > User kicks off batches of threads on the gel Targeted software stack Compute oriented drivers, language, and tools Driver for loading computation programs into GPU Standalone Driver -Optimized for computation Interface designed for compute- graphics-free API Data sharing with OpengL buffer objects Guaranteed maximum download &z readback speeds Explicit eU memory managementCUDA 2 • “Compute Unified Device Architecture” ➢General purpose programming model ➢User kicks off batches of threads on the GPU •Targeted software stack ➢Compute oriented drivers, language, and tools •Driver for loading computation programs into GPU ➢Standalone Driver -Optimized for computation ➢Interface designed for compute –graphics-free API ➢Data sharing with OpenGL buffer objects ➢Guaranteed maximum download & readback speeds ➢Explicit GPU memory management