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blelbach | 5 years ago

Since Unified Memory. UVA, or Unified Virtual Addressing, just ensured that a GPU-private object wouldn't have the same address as a CPU-private object.

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shaklee3|5 years ago

You're right, sorry. Mixing up terms.

blelbach|5 years ago

Not your fault, we don't make it easy. The acroynms are terrible! That's why I typically spell out the full term.

My first week at NVIDIA:

Me, to very senior engineer: something something UVM.

Very senior engineer: What's UVM?

Me: Unified Virtual Memory.

Very senior engineer: Don't call it that, call it Unified Memory, no abbreviation. TLAs are evil.

Me: What's TLA?

Very senior engineer: Three letter acronym.