我们有一个安装了两个 Nvidia Quadro FX 5800 卡的工作站。运行 deviceQuery CUDA 示例显示每个多处理器 (SM) 的最大线程数为 1024,而每个块的最大线程数为 512。
鉴于每个 SM 一次只能执行一个块,为什么最大线程/处理器是最大线程/块的两倍?我们如何利用每个 SM 的其他 512 个线程?
Device 1: "Quadro FX 5800"
CUDA Driver Version / Runtime Version 5.0 / 5.0
CUDA Capability Major/Minor version number: 1.3
Total amount of global memory: 4096 MBytes (4294770688 bytes)
(30) Multiprocessors x ( 8) CUDA Cores/MP: 240 CUDA Cores
GPU Clock rate: 1296 MHz (1.30 GHz)
Memory Clock rate: 800 Mhz
Memory Bus Width: 512-bit
Max Texture Dimension Size (x,y,z) 1D=(8192), 2D=(65536,32768), 3D=(2048,2048,2048)
Max Layered Texture Size (dim) x layers 1D=(8192) x 512, 2D=(8192,8192) x 512
Total amount of constant memory: 65536 bytes
Total amount of shared memory per block: 16384 bytes
Total number of registers available per block: 16384
Warp size: 32
Maximum number of threads per multiprocessor: 1024
Maximum number of threads per block: 512
Maximum sizes of each dimension of a block: 512 x 512 x 64
Maximum sizes of each dimension of a grid: 65535 x 65535 x 1
Maximum memory pitch: 2147483647 bytes
Texture alignment: 256 bytes
Concurrent copy and kernel execution: Yes with 1 copy engine(s)
Run time limit on kernels: No
Integrated GPU sharing Host Memory: No
Support host page-locked memory mapping: Yes
Alignment requirement for Surfaces: Yes
Device has ECC support: Disabled
Device supports Unified Addressing (UVA): No
Device PCI Bus ID / PCI location ID: 4 / 0
Compute Mode:
< Default (multiple host threads can use ::cudaSetDevice() with device simultaneously) >
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