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Gmrace: Detecting data races in gpu programs via a low-overhead scheme

Zheng et al., 2013

Document ID
14784229608799438866
Author
Zheng M
Ravi V
Qin F
Agrawal G
Publication year
Publication venue
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

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In recent years, GPUs have emerged as an extremely cost-effective means for achieving high performance. While languages like CUDA and OpenCL have eased GPU programming for nongraphical applications, they are still explicitly parallel languages. All parallel …
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