Parallel Thread Execution (PTX or NVPTX) is a low-level parallel thread execution virtual machine and instruction set architecture used in Nvidia's Compute...
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In computer programming, a thread pool is a software design pattern for achieving concurrency of execution in a computer program. Often also called a...
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In computer science, a thread of execution is the smallest sequence of programmed instructions that can be managed independently by a scheduler, which...
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A thread block is a programming abstraction that represents a group of threads that can be executed serially or in parallel. For better process and data...
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correct program execution, the above program can be rewritten to use locks: One thread will successfully lock variable V, while the other thread will be locked...
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information about each process. Parallel Thread Execution Process control block (PCB) Thread Environment Block (TEB) "Thread Control Block in Operating System"...
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single thread of execution per processor. In order to express parallelism, UPC extends ISO C 99 with the following constructs: An explicitly parallel execution...
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parallel execution model. A concurrent programming language is defined as one which uses the concept of simultaneously executing processes or threads...
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illustrates why multi-threaded programming is difficult. Modern parallel languages have much easier to use execution models. The thread model was one of the...
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executed by a thread, executed by the same thread, or simultaneously executed by another thread and still correctly complete the original execution. This requires...
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Single instruction, multiple threads (SIMT) is an execution model used in parallel computing where single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) is combined...
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Multithreading (computer architecture) (redirect from Hardware thread)
(or a single core in a multi-core processor) to provide multiple threads of execution. The multithreading paradigm has become more popular as efforts to...
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CUDA (category Parallel computing)
on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 34 (1): 246–261. arXiv:2206.02874. doi:10.1109/tpds.2022.3217824. S2CID 249431357. "Parallel Thread Execution ISA...
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compiled with the rest of the application using another tool or Parallel Thread Execution (PTX) or object code directly. An executable with CUDA code requires:...
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TPL for execution. The Task Parallel Library (TPL) is the task parallelism component of the Parallel Extensions to .NET. It exposes parallel constructs...
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Pthreads (redirect from POSIX thread)
POSIX Threads, commonly known as pthreads, is an execution model that exists independently from a programming language, as well as a parallel execution model...
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operating system to schedule two threads or processes simultaneously and appropriately. When execution resources in a hyper-threaded processor are not in use...
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In computer programming, a green thread is a thread that is scheduled by a runtime library or virtual machine (VM) instead of natively by the underlying...
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Nvidia Parallel Thread Execution ISA derives some terminology (specifically the term Warp to refer to a group of concurrent processing threads) from historical...
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Fork–join model (category Parallel computing)
that its execution may run in parallel (in a separate thread) with the following part of the function, up to the join that causes all threads to synchronize...
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Superscalar processor (redirect from Superscalar execution)
multiple execution units, whereas the latter (pipeline) executes multiple instructions in the same execution unit in parallel by dividing the execution unit...
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x86-64, ARM, Qualcomm Hexagon, LoongArch, M68K, MIPS, NVIDIA Parallel Thread Execution (PTX, also named NVPTX in LLVM documentation), PowerPC, AMD TeraScale...
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(GLSL) Tungsten Graphics Shader Infrastructure Compute kernel Parallel Thread Execution ARB assembly language "Khronos SPIR-V Registry - The Khronos Group...
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Automatic parallelization, also auto parallelization, or autoparallelization refers to converting sequential code into multi-threaded and/or vectorized...
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Work stealing (category Parallel computing)
dynamically multithreaded computation, one that can "spawn" new threads of execution, on a statically multithreaded computer, with a fixed number of processors...
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OpenMP (category Parallel computing)
omp_get_thread_num()). The thread ID is an integer, and the primary thread has an ID of 0. After the execution of the parallelized code, the threads join...
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Speculative multithreading (redirect from Thread level speculation)
anticipated to be executed later in parallel with the normal execution on a separate independent thread. Such a speculative thread may need to make assumptions...
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Simultaneous multithreading (redirect from Simultaneous multi-threading)
CPUs with hardware multithreading. SMT permits multiple independent threads of execution to better use the resources provided by modern processor architectures...
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Task parallelism (redirect from Thread-level parallelism)
different thread (or process) on the same or different data. The threads may execute the same or different code. In the general case, different execution threads...
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Data parallelism (redirect from Data parallel)
this job as a data parallel job on 4 processors the time taken would reduce to (n/4)×Ta + merging overhead time units. Parallel execution results in a speedup...
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