GPU Memory Hierarchy & Optimization
Master GPU memory hierarchy from registers to global memory, understand coalescing patterns, bank conflicts, and optimization strategies for maximum performance
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NVIDIA Unified Virtual Memory
NVIDIA Unified Virtual Memory (UVM): on-demand page migration, memory oversubscription, and simplified CPU-GPU memory management.
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NVIDIA Device Files in /dev/
Understanding character devices, major/minor numbers, and the device file hierarchy created by NVIDIA drivers for GPU access in Linux.
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CUDA Multi-Process Service (MPS)
Learn CUDA Multi-Process Service (MPS) for GPU sharing. Enable concurrent kernel execution from multiple processes and maximize GPU utilization.
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Pinned Memory and DMA Transfers
Understanding PyTorch pin_memory for faster CPU to GPU data transfers using DMA (Direct Memory Access) and page-locked memory.
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Tensor Cores: Accelerating Deep Learning
NVIDIA Tensor Cores explained: mixed-precision matrix operations delivering 10x speedups for AI training and inference on CUDA GPUs.
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GPU Streaming Multiprocessor (SM)
Deep dive into the fundamental processing unit of modern GPUs - the Streaming Multiprocessor architecture, execution model, and memory hierarchy
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