GPU Glossary

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Device Hardware

CUDA (Device Architecture)

Streaming Multiprocessor

Special Function Unit

Load/Store Unit

Tensor Memory Accelerator

Streaming Multiprocessor Architecture

Texture Processing Cluster

Graphics/GPU Processing Cluster

Device Software

CUDA (Programming Model)

Streaming ASSembler

Parallel Thread eXecution

Compute Capability

Cooperative Thread Array

Thread Block Grid

Thread Hierarchy

Memory Hierarchy

CUDA (Software Platform)

CUDA C++ (programming language)

NVIDIA GPU Drivers

CUDA Driver API

NVIDIA Management Library

CUDA Runtime API

NVIDIA CUDA Compiler Driver

NVIDIA Runtime Compiler

NVIDIA CUDA Profiling Tools Interface

NVIDIA Nsight Systems

CUDA Binary Utilities

Performance Bottleneck

Arithmetic Intensity

Memory Bandwidth

Arithmetic Bandwidth

Warp Execution State

Pipe Utilization

Issue Efficiency

Streaming Multiprocessor Utilization

Warp Divergence

Branch Efficiency

Register Pressure

/host-software/libnvml

What is libnvml.so?

The typical name for the binary shared object file that implements the features of NVML on Linux systems.

NVIDIA Management Library

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