GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition (Applications of GPU Computing Series) - Hardcover

Hwu, Wen-mei

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0123859638 ISBN 13: 9780123859631

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 2011

Synopsis

GPU Computing Gems, Jade Edition, offers hands-on, proven techniques for general purpose GPU programming based on the successful application experiences of leading researchers and developers. One of few resources available that distills the best practices of the community of CUDA programmers, this second edition contains 100% new material of interest across industry, including finance, medicine, imaging, engineering, gaming, environmental science, and green computing. It covers new tools and frameworks for productive GPU computing application development and provides immediate benefit to researchers developing improved programming environments for GPUs.

Divided into five sections, this book explains how GPU execution is achieved with algorithm implementation techniques and approaches to data structure layout. More specifically, it considers three general requirements: high level of parallelism, coherent memory access by threads within warps, and coherent control flow within warps. Chapters explore topics such as accelerating database searches; how to leverage the Fermi GPU architecture to further accelerate prefix operations; and GPU implementation of hash tables. There are also discussions on the state of GPU computing in interactive physics and artificial intelligence; programming tools and techniques for GPU computing; and the edge and node parallelism approach for computing graph centrality metrics. In addition, the book proposes an alternative approach that balances computation regardless of node degree variance.

Software engineers, programmers, hardware engineers, and advanced students will find this book extremely usefull. For useful source codes discussed throughout the book, the editors invite readers to the following website:

• This second volume of GPU Computing Gems offers 100% new material of interest across industry, including finance, medicine, imaging, engineering, gaming, environmental science, green computing, and more
• Covers new tools and frameworks for productive GPU computing application development and offers immediate benefit to researchers developing improved programming environments for GPUs
• Even more hands-on, proven techniques demonstrating how general purpose GPU computing is changing scientific research
• Distills the best practices of the community of CUDA programmers; each chapter provides insights and ideas as well as 'hands on' skills applicable to a variety of fields

About this title

Product Description:

GPU Computing Gems: Emerald Edition Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are designed to be parallel - having hundreds of cores versus traditional CPUs. If you're facing the challenge of programming systems to effectively use these massively parallel processors to achieve efficiency and performance goals, this title provides tested, proven GPU techniques. Full description

Review:

It wasn't until recently that parallel [GPU] computing made people realize that there are whole areas in computing science that we can tackle. ... When you can do something 10 or 100 times faster, something magical happens and you can do something completely different.

―Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO, NVIDIA

About this edition

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0123859638
• ISBN 13: 9780123859631
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 896