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GPGPU Cloud: A Paradigm for General Purpose Computing

College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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Abstract

The Kepler General Purpose GPU (GPGPU) architecture was developed to directly support GPU virtualization and make GPGPU cloud computing more broadly applicable by providing general purpose computing capability in the form of on-demand virtual resources. This paper describes a baseline GPGPU cloud system built on Kepler GPUs, for the purpose of exploring hardware potential while improving task performance. This paper elaborates a general scheme which defines the whole cloud system into a cloud layer, a server layer, and a GPGPU layer. This paper also illustrates the hardware features, task features, scheduling mechanism, and execution mechanism of each layer. Thus, this paper provides a better understanding of general-purpose computing on a GPGPU cloud.

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KeplerGK110GPGPU cloudvirtualizationSMX

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Tsinghua Science and Technology
Volume 18 Issue 1,
February 2013
Pages 22-33
DOI: 10.1109/TST.2013.6449404
Cite this article:
Hu L, Che X, Xie Z. GPGPU Cloud: A Paradigm for General Purpose Computing. Tsinghua Science and Technology, 2013, 18(1): 22-33. https://doi.org/10.1109/TST.2013.6449404

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Received: 10 December 2012
Accepted: 28 December 2012
Published: 07 February 2013
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