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CUDA: Thread Information

📅 2011-Feb-16 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ 🏷️ cuda ⬩ 📚 Archive

This is boilerplate code I tend to use in every CUDA kernel to calculate thread information:

__global__ void fooKernel()
{
    // Thread info
    const int blocksPerGrid   = gridDim.x;
    const int threadsPerBlock = blockDim.x;
    const int totalThreadNum  = blocksPerGrid * threadsPerBlock;
    const int curThreadIdx    = ( blockIdx.x * threadsPerBlock ) + threadIdx.x;

    // Rest of kernel
}

This is written for a kernel launched with a 1-dimensional grid and a 1-dimensional block. Adapting it for grid-blocks of different dimensions should be easy.


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