Single instruction, multiple threads
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Single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) is an "execution model" and abstraction on top of the hardware paradigm, single Instruction, multiple data, introduced by Nvidia[1]:
[The G80 Nvidia GPU architecture] introduced the single-instruction multiple-thread (SIMT) execution model where multiple independent threads execute concurrently using a single instruction.
References
- ^ "Nvidia Fermi Compute Arcitecture Whitepaper" (PDF). http://www.nvidia.com/. NVIDIA Corporation. 2009. Retrieved 2014/07/17.
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