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CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture)

10.4.4 - CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture)

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What does CUDA stand for?

💡 Hint: Think about what the acronym suggests about parallel computing.

Question 2 Easy

Name one programming language used with CUDA.

💡 Hint: Consider the languages you may have learned in programming class.

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Question 1

What is CUDA primarily used for?

Single-thread performance
Graphical user interfaces
Parallel computing

💡 Hint: Think about what CUDA allows developers to do with GPUs.

Question 2

True or False: The CPU executes the same task as the GPU in CUDA.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider how tasks are allocated between processors.

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

Discuss how you would optimize a CUDA program for a machine learning application. What strategies would you employ?

💡 Hint: Consider the memory bandwidth and execution configurations that might affect performance.

Challenge 2 Hard

Design a simple CUDA kernel to add two arrays. Describe how you would handle data allocation and launch the kernel.

💡 Hint: Think about how threads can be mapped to array indices.

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