Adds a package for mallocMC, a memory allocator for many core
architectures.
This project provides a framework for fast memory managers on
many core accelerators. Currently, it supports NVIDIA GPUs of
compute capability sm_20 or higher through the ScatterAlloc
algorithm. mallocMC is header-only.
Downstream Dependencies
PIConGPU and other projects of HZDR's
*Computational Radiation Physics* group
References
- Markus Steinberger, Michael Kenzel, Bernhard Kainz and Dieter Schmalstieg.
*ScatterAlloc: Massively parallel dynamic memory allocation for the GPU*,
Innovative Parallel Computing (InPar), 2012,
https://doi.org/10.1109/InPar.2012.6339604
- Carlchristian Eckert.
*Enhancements of the massively parallel memory allocator ScatterAlloc and its adaption to the general interface mallocMC*,
Junior Thesis (grosser Beleg), 2014,
http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.34461
