Register Efficient Dynamic Memory Allocator for GPUs
M. Vinkler, V. Havran
In Computer Graphics Forum, 34(8), 2015.
Abstract: We compare five existing dynamic memory allocators optimized for GPUs and show their strengths and weaknesses. In the measurements, we use three generic evaluation tests proposed in the past and we add one with a real workload, where dynamic memory allocation is used in building the k-d tree data structure. Following the performance analysis we propose a new dynamic memory allocator and its variants that address the limitations of the existing dynamic memory allocators. The new dynamic memory allocator uses few resources and is targeted towards large and variably sized memory allocations on massively parallel hardware architectures.
Keyword(s): dynamic memory allocation, many-core architecture, GPU, CUDA, D.1.3 [Programming Techniques]: Concurrent Programming Parallel programming D.3.3 [Programming Languages]: Language Constructs and Features Dynamic storage management D.4.2 [Operating Systems]: Storage Management Allocation/deallocation strategies
@article{CGF:CGF12666,
author = {M. Vinkler and V. Havran},
title = {Register Efficient Dynamic Memory Allocator for GPUs},
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
volume = {34},
number = {8},
pages = {143--154},
year = {2015},
}
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