AMD GPU ISA

[Eric Holk]

It looks like AMD has documentation on the actual assembly language used by their GPUs, rather than some high level virtual ISA:

http://developer.amd.com/tools/hc/AMDAPPSDK/assets/AMD_Southern_Islands_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf

This is probably worth skimming over, as it gives a lot of information about how GPU hardware is actually laid out. In many ways, the GPU seems like a fairly traditional vector processor.

-Eric

[William Byrd]

Thanks Eric!

Here is something else to look at (from the latest NVIDIA email):

GPU THESIS WATCH
Title: Java on CUDA Architecture
Author: Jan Strnad, Czech Technical University in Prague
Advisor: Zdenek Konfrst, PhD
URL: https://dip.felk.cvut.cz/browse/pdfcache/strnaj11_2012bach.pdf

--Will

-Eric

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