Part 5: OpenCL Buffers and Memory Affinity

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24 May 2011CPOL9 min read

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This fifth article in a series on portable multithreaded programming using OpenCL™ Rob Farber discusses OpenCL™ buffers and demonstrates how to tie computation to data in a multi-device, multi-GPU environment.

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Rob Farber is a senior scientist and research consultant at the Irish Center for High-End Computing in Dublin, Ireland and Chief Scientist for BlackDog Endeavors, LLC in the US.

Rob has been on staff at several US national laboratories including Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He also served as an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute, co-founded two successful start-ups, and has been a consultant to Fortune 100 companies. His articles have appeared in Dr. Dobb's Journal and Scientific Computing, among others. He recently completed a book teaching massive parallel computing.

Part 5: OpenCL Buffers and Memory Affinity

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