Programming GPUs is challenging for applications with irregular fine-grained communication between threads. To improve GPUs' programmability and thus extend their usage to a wider range of applications, the authors propose to enable transactional memory (TM) on GPUs via Kilo TM, a novel hardware TM system that scales to thousands of concurrent transactions.
Published in:
Micro, IEEE
(Volume:32
,
Issue:
3
)
Date of Publication: May-June 2012