Title :
A GPU Task-Parallel Model with Dependency Resolution
Author :
Tzeng, Stanley ; Lloyd, Brandon ; Owens, John D.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California, Davis, CA, USA
fDate :
8/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A task-parallel approach to programming commodity graphics hardware is useful for implementing irregular parallel workloads with dependencies, particularly for applications such as video encoding and backtracking algorithms
Keywords :
graphics processing units; parallel programming; GPU task-parallel model; backtracking algorithms; commodity graphics hardware; dependency resolution; irregular parallel workloads; video encoding; Encoding; Graphics processing unit; Hardware; Multithreading; Prediction algorithms; Predictive models; Programming; Youtube; CPU; GPU; graphics processors; massively threaded systems; multithreading; parallel processing; video coding;
DOI :
10.1109/MC.2012.255
