Cuda Programming

If you need to learn CUDA but don't have experience with parallel computing, CUDA Programming: A Developer's Introduction offers a detailed guide to CUDA with a grounding in parallel fundamentals. It starts by introducing CUDA and bringing you up to speed on GPU parallelism and hardware, then delving into CUDA installation. Chapters on core concepts including threads, blocks, grids, and memory focus on both parallel and CUDA-specific issues. Later, the book demonstrates CUDA in practice for optimizing applications, adjusting to new hardware, and solving common problems.

Autorentext
Shane Cook is Technical Director at CUDA Developer, a consultancy company that helps companies exploit the power of GPUs by re-engineering code to make the optimal use of the hardware available. He formed CUDA Developer upon realizing the potential of heterogeneous systems and CUDA to disrupt existing serial and parallel programming technologies. He has a degree in Applied Software Engineering, specializing in the embedded software field. He has worked in senior roles with blue chip companies over the past twenty years, always seeking to help to develop the engineers in his team. He has worked on C programming standards including the MISRA Safer C used by widely in the automotive software community, and previously developed code for companies in the Germany automotive and defense contracting industries as well as Nortel and Ford Motor Company.

Klappentext

A comprehensive introduction to parallel programming with CUDA, for readers new to both.

Zusammenfassung
A guide to CUDA. It features chapters on core concepts including threads, blocks, grids, and memory focus on both parallel and CUDA-specific issues. It demonstrates CUDA in practice for optimizing applications, adjusting to new hardware, and solving common problems.

Inhalt

1. A Short History of Supercomputing2. Understanding Parallelism with GPUs3. CUDA Hardware Overview4. Setting Up Cuda5. Grids, Blocks, and Threads6. Memory Handling with CUDA7. Using CUDA in Practice8. Multi-CPU and Multi-GPU Solutions9. Optimizing Your Application10. Libraries and SDK11. Designing GPU-Based Systems12. Common Problems, Causes, and Solutions