Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vol 11, No 8: August 2013

A Novel Architecture of Multi-GPU Computing Card

Sen Guo (ShenZhen Institute of Information Technology ShenZhen)
Sanfeng Chen (ShenZhen Institute of Information Technology ShenZhen)
YongSheng Liang (ShenZhen Institute of Information Technology ShenZhen)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Aug 2013

Abstract

The data transmission between GPUS in the existing multi_GPU computing card is often through PCIE which is in relative low speed, so the PCIE has become bottleneck of Overall performance. A novel architecture of multi_GPU computing card have been proposed in this paper: A multi-channel memory which have multiple interfaces is added, including one common interface shared by different GPUs, which is connected with a FPGA arbitration circuit and several other interfaces connected with dedicated GPUs frame buffer independently, and this multi-channel memory is called "global shared memory". The result of a simulation of accelerating computer tomography algebraic reconstruction on multi-GPU demonstrates effectiveness of this approach. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/telkomnika.v11i8.3038 

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