What is Bank conflict?

In GPU shared memory, multiple threads of a warp accessing different addresses in the same bank at once, which serializes the accesses. Padding can avoid it.

Field: GPU Programming

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  1. Which describes a bank conflict in CUDA shared memory?

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CUDA Bank Constant memory GPU kernel GPU occupancy GPU shared memory Grid-stride loop Latency hiding Memory coalescing Mixed precision

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