Illinois ECE 498AL: Programming Massively Parallel Processors, Lecture 10: Control Flow

By Wen-Mei W Hwu

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Abstract

Control Flow

Topics:

  • Terminology Review
  • How Thread Blocks are Partitioned
  • Control Flow Instructions
  • Parallel Reduction
  • A Vector Reduction Example
  • A simple Implementation
  • Vector Reduction With Bank Conflicts
  • Vector Reduction With Branch Divergence
  • Predicted Execution Concept
  • Instruction Prediction in G80

Credits

These lecture were breezed by Carl Pearson and Daniel Borup and then reviewed, edited ,and Uploaded by Omar Sobh.

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  • Wen-Mei W Hwu (2009), "Illinois ECE 498AL: Programming Massively Parallel Processors, Lecture 10: Control Flow," https://nanohub.org/resources/7304.

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