From: Daniel Arndt <daniel.arndt@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 00:22:29 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Add description of memory and exceution space for CUDA support
X-Git-Tag: v9.1.0-rc1~309^2~1
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4f6a313d8eb6adc884951680bd860a81878b43e8;p=dealii.git

Add description of memory and exceution space for CUDA support
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diff --git a/include/deal.II/lac/trilinos_tpetra_vector.h b/include/deal.II/lac/trilinos_tpetra_vector.h
index e883b24a00..35e31cc92e 100644
--- a/include/deal.II/lac/trilinos_tpetra_vector.h
+++ b/include/deal.II/lac/trilinos_tpetra_vector.h
@@ -54,9 +54,15 @@ namespace LinearAlgebra
      * LinearAlgebra::VectorSpaceVector class and requires Trilinos to be
      * compiled with MPI support.
      *
+     * Tpetra uses Kokkos for thread-parallelism. In case Trilinos was
+     * configured with CUDA support, this class stores the values in unified
+     * virtual memory space and performs its action on the GPU. In particular,
+     * there is no need for manually synchronizing memory between host and
+     * device.
+     *
      * @ingroup TrilinosWrappers
      * @ingroup Vectors
-     * @author Daniel Arndt, 2018
+     * @author Daniel Arndt, 2019
      */
     template <typename Number>
     class Vector : public VectorSpaceVector<Number>, public Subscriptor