Exam 19: General-Purpose Graphic Processing Units

Because the GPU and the CPU are designed and optimized for two significantly different types of applications,their architectures differ significantly.

In the CPU the control logic and __________ make up the majority of the CPU's real estate.

The entire Gen8 compute architecture interfaces to the rest of the SoC components via a dedicated unit called the ____________ .

The GPU has found its way into massively parallel programming environments for a wide range of applications,which is where the term __________ is derived from.

A _________ is a single instance of the kernel function.

GPUs can be found in almost all of today's workstations,laptops, tablets,and smartphones.

The _________ global scheduler unit on the GPU chip distributes the thread blocks to the SMs.

The grid and the block need to have the same dimensions.

CUDA C is a C / C++ based language.

The Fermi architecture upgraded from the IEEE 754-1985 floating-point arithmetic standard to the IEEE 754-2008 standard.

GPGPU is a computing platform and programming model created by NVIDIA.

The parallel code in the form of a function to be run on GPU is the ________ .

The _________ GPU has a total of 16 SMs x 32 CUDA cores / SM,or 512 CUDA cores.

___________ is a GPU processing technology.

The GPU is most efficient when it is processing as many warps as possible to keep the CUDA cores maximally utilized.

The fundamental building block of the Gen8 architecture is the ________ unit.

A group of threads assigned to a particular SM is a __________ .

An instance of the kernel on the GPU is a ___________ .

It is not important for the programmer to understand the nuances of the various GPU memories.

In 2006 NVIDIA facilitated the use of its new GPGPU language,________ .