Understanding PTX, the Assembly Language of CUDA GPU Computing

Originally published at: Understanding PTX, the Assembly Language of CUDA GPU Computing | NVIDIA Technical Blog

Parallel thread execution (PTX) is a virtual machine instruction set architecture that has been part of CUDA from its beginning. You can think of PTX as the assembly language of the NVIDIA CUDA GPU computing platform.  In this post, we’ll explain what that means, what PTX is for, and what you need to know about…