Chapter 33. Implementing Efficient Parallel Data Structures on GPUs

Aaron LefohnUniversity of California, Davis

Joe KnissUniversity of Utah

John OwensUniversity of California, Davis

Modern GPUs, for the first time in computing history, put a data-parallel, streaming computing platform in nearly every desktop and notebook computer. A number of recent academic research papers—as well as other chapters in this book—demonstrate that these streaming processors are capable of accelerating a much broader scope of applications than the real-time rendering applications for which they were originally designed. Leveraging this computational power, however, requires using a fundamentally different programming model that is foreign to many programmers. This chapter ...

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