Semiconductor Engineering

Efficient Multi-GPU Shared Memory via Automatic Optimization of Fine-Grained Transfers

Harini Muthukrishnan (U of Michigan); David Nellans, Daniel Lustig (NVIDIA); Jeffrey A. Fessler, Thomas Wenisch (U of Michigan). Abstract—”Despite continuing research into inter-GPU communication ...
TweakTown

New Intel driver lets you dedicate 93% of system memory to the iGPU for VRAM, enabling support for larger AI models

The new driver targets systems with built-in Arc Pro Graphics, enabling, for example, a 64GB host system to allocate 59.5GB ...
Houston Chronicle

Another reason to avoid shared-memory graphics

SEATTLE -- In an earlier post, I theorized that users saddled with PCs that share graphics and system memory would not be happy with Longhorn. After talking this morning with a Microsoft manager, it ...
TechNewsWorld

ATI’s HyperMemory Uses System Memory for Graphics

ATI Technologies, the three-dimensional graphics chipmaker, today announced HyperMemory, a technology that allows a PC to use system memory for graphics processing. HyperMemory uses the high-speed ...
EDN

Shared-memory system increases throughput, not size

Applications driving the use of multiple embedded DSPs, network-processing units, or graphics chips require extremely high throughput without compromising silicon area. Increasingly, SOC ...