Contributors

Authors

• Charles Frye wrote the majority of the material and takes full responsibility for any errors.
• Matthew Nappo wrote the initial internal "GPU Glossary" document from which this sprung.
• You can contribute to keep the glossary up-to-date and erratum-free!

Design

• Sona Dolasia designed the glossary.
• Anna Carey implemented the design and UX.

Review

• Abhinav Upadhyay of Coding Confessions and @Pauleonix of the GPU MODE Discord , from outside Modal, provided valuable external technical review of the glossary. We particularly thank Abhinav for his perspective on comparisons with CPUs and Pauleonix for his detailed insights on GPU hardware internals.
• Akshat Bubna , Nathan Wang , and Colin Weld gave technical feedback on early drafts of the glossary.
• Eric Zhang and Ro Arepally reviewed the design and implementation.

Acknowledgements

• Mark Saroufim and Andreas Kopf for bringing together the GPU MODE Discord community
• Fabien Sanglard for authoring an excellent history of CUDA GPUs
• Jen-Hsun Huang for leading an organization that makes some pretty decent chips

Error Correction

We thank the following GPU enthusiasts who came in through the world wide web to correct errors:

• Alex Zhang
• Erik Schultheis
• Ismail Zaidi
• Michal Nawrot
• Nicolas Blin

You can join them! Just report any errors you see to glossary@modal.com.