PTX - what is a CTA?

cuda, gpu, nvidia, ptx

Solution

Yes, the PTX cooperative thread array is conceptually and functionally the same as a block in CUDA or a workgroup in OpenCL.

Problem

I'm studying PTX and I don't understand how a CTA (compute thread array) is different from a CUDA block. Are they the same thing? It seems to me that for now (I'm just at the beginning of the PTX document) they're just the same

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