Re:An History of Nvidia Stream Multiprocessor
by boulos on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:15PM
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Fabien, how come you skipped Volta? (Presumably because it wasn’t interesting for Display, but it’s a huge step up from Pascal)
The most interesting thing to me in the progression of NVIDIA’s compute offerings is that until Volta, the “SIMT” claims were just a programming model and the hardware was actually just like any other SIMD hardware (though with automatic mask stacks). In Volta, they finally added “we can run different ops at different program counters”.
For the casual reader, the hot chips 2017 presentation is probably the easiest skim:
The most interesting thing to me in the progression of NVIDIA’s compute offerings is that until Volta, the “SIMT” claims were just a programming model and the hardware was actually just like any other SIMD hardware (though with automatic mask stacks). In Volta, they finally added “we can run different ops at different program counters”.
For the casual reader, the hot chips 2017 presentation is probably the easiest skim:
https://www.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc29...