top | item 24530882 (no title) 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. discuss order hn newest 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.
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.
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.
shaklee3|5 years ago
blelbach|5 years ago
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.