Professional CUDA C Programming [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Cheng John
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : Wiley, 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (527 p.)
• Disciplina: 004.35; 004/.35
• Soggetto topico: Computer architecture; Multiprocessors; Parallel processing (Electronic computers); Parallel programming (Computer science); Engineering & Applied Sciences; Computer Science
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: GrossmanMax McKercherTy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Chapter 1 Heterogeneous Parallel Computing with CUDA; Parallel Computing; Sequential and Parallel Programming; Parallelism; Computer Architecture; Heterogeneous Computing; Heterogeneous Architecture; Paradigm of Heterogeneous Computing; CUDA: A Platform for Heterogeneous Computing; Hello World from GPU; Is CUDA C Programming Difficult?; Summary; Chapter 2 CUDA Programming Model; Introducing the CUDA Programming Model; CUDA Programming Structure; Managing Memory; Organizing Threads; Launching a CUDA Kernel; Writing Your Kernel; Verifying Your Kernel ; Handling ErrorsCompiling and Executing; Timing Your Kernel; Timing with CPU Timer; Timing with nvprof; Organizing Parallel Threads; Indexing Matrices with Blocks and Threads; Summing Matrices with a 2D Grid and 2D Blocks; Summing Matrices with a 1D Grid and 1D Blocks; Summing Matrices with a 2D Grid and 1D Blocks; Managing Devices; Using the Runtime API to Query GPU Information; Determining the Best GPU; Using nvidia-smi to Query GPU Information; Setting Devices at Runtime; Summary; Chapter 3 CUDA Execution Model; Introducing the CUDA Execution Model; GPU Architecture Overview ; The Fermi ArchitectureThe Kepler Architecture; Profile-Driven Optimization; Understanding the Nature of Warp Execution; Warps and Thread Blocks; Warp Divergence; Resource Partitioning; Latency Hiding; Occupancy; Synchronization; Scalability; Exposing Parallelism; Checking Active Warps with nvprof; Checking Memory Operations with nvprof; Exposing More Parallelism; Avoiding Branch Divergence; The Parallel Reduction Problem; Divergence in Parallel Reduction; Improving Divergence in Parallel Reduction; Reducing with Interleaved Pairs; Unrolling Loops; Reducing with Unrolling ; Reducing with Unrolled WarpsReducing with Complete Unrolling; Reducing with Template Functions; Dynamic Parallelism; Nested Execution; Nested Hello World on the GPU; Nested Reduction; Summary; Chapter 4 Global Memory; Introducing the CUDA Memory Model; Benefits of a Memory Hierarchy; CUDA Memory Model; Memory Management; Memory Allocation and Deallocation; Memory Transfer; Pinned Memory; Zero-Copy Memory; Unified Virtual Addressing; Unified Memory; Memory Access Patterns; Aligned and Coalesced Access; Global Memory Reads; Global Memory Writes; Array of Structures versus Structure of Arrays ; Performance TuningWhat Bandwidth Can a Kernel Achieve?; Memory Bandwidth; Matrix Transpose Problem; Matrix Addition with Unified Memory; Summary; Chapter 5 Shared Memory and Constant Memory; Introducing CUDA Shared Memory; Shared Memory; Shared Memory Allocation; Shared Memory Banks and Access Mode; Configuring the Amount of Shared Memory; Synchronization; Checking the Data Layout of Shared Memory; Square Shared Memory; Rectangular Shared Memory; Reducing Global Memory Access; Parallel Reduction with Shared Memory; Parallel Reduction with Unrolling ; Parallel Reduction with Dynamic Shared Memory
• Sommario/riassunto: Break into the powerful world of parallel GPU programming with this down-to-earth, practical guide Designed for professionals across multiple industrial sectors, Professional CUDA C Programming presents CUDA -- a parallel computing platform and programming model designed to ease the development of GPU programming -- fundamentals in an easy-to-follow format, and teaches readers how to think in parallel and implement parallel algorithms on GPUs. Each chapter covers a specific topic, and includes workable examples that demonstrate the development process, allowing readers to explore both the "
• Titolo autorizzato: Professional CUDA C Programming
• ISBN: 1-118-73927-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458434103321
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