stream processor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstreamandprocessor
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stream
noun[C]
uk/striːm/us/striːm/
water that flows naturally along a fixed route formed by a channel cut into rock or ground, usually at ...
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processor
noun[C]
uk/ˈprəʊ.ses.ər/us/ˈprɑː.ses.ɚ/
the part of a computer that performs operations on the information that is put ...
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Thestreamprocessoris usually equipped with a fast, efficient, proprietary memory bus (crossbar switches are now common, multi-buses have been employed in the past).
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Another difference is that their stream processors may perform redundant computation due to their evaluation strategy.
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The 5750 had one shader engine disabled (of 10), so had 720 stream processors, while the 5770 had all ten enabled.
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Although there are various degrees of flexibility allowed by the model, stream processors usually impose some limitations on the kernel or stream size.
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Processes are stream processors, functions that transform an ingoing to an outgoing stream.
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Beginning from a whole system point of view, stream processors usually exist in a controlled environment.
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Most (90%) of a stream processor's work is done on-chip, requiring only 1% of the global data to be stored to memory.
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In this case one quarter of the stream processors are disabled, giving 1536 usable cores.
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By contrast, ad-hoc stream processors easily reach over 10x performance, mainly attributed to the more efficient memory access and higher levels of parallel processing.
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For stream processors, the usage of structures is encouraged.
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