A test suite for analyzing the performance features of graphics processing units

Authors

  • A.V. Adinetz
  • P.A. Shvets

Keywords:

graphics processing units
heterogeneous computing systems
atomic operations

Abstract

A test suite is proposed for graphics processors. These tests allow measuring various performance features, such as the delay and bandwidth of various types of memory, the efficiency of atomic operations, and the cache line size. With the aid of a specially developed memory test, we show that the coherency between threads has a much greater effect on the memory bandwidth than locality.

New computational technologies

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Published

2011-11-10

Issue

Vol. 12 (2011): Issue 4.

Section

Section 2. Programming

Author Biographies

A.V. Adinetz

Lomonosov Moscow State University,
Research Computing Center
• Junior Researcher

P.A. Shvets

Lomonosov Moscow State University,
Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics
• Student

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