https://icyveins7.github.io/tags/iterative/Recent content in Iterative on icyveins7's blogHugoen-usThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sat, 29 Nov 2025 20:00:00 +0800https://icyveins7.github.io/posts/2025/11/iterative-algorithms-with-cuda/Sat, 29 Nov 2025 20:00:00 +0800https://icyveins7.github.io/posts/2025/11/iterative-algorithms-with-cuda/<blockquote> <p>Because not everything can be made un-iterative..</p> </blockquote> <p>There&rsquo;s a pretty large class of algorithms that have been developed for CPUs that involve, optimally, an iterative solver.</p> <p>Usually, this is defined by some notion of <em>convergence</em>; some variable is updated, and then at the end of each iteration it is checked to determine whether further iterations are required.</p> <p>This is all fine and dandy in CPU-land, but in GPUs this almost always makes the flow awkward.</p>