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Learn CUDA Programming

By : Jaegeun Han, Bharatkumar Sharma
Book Image

Learn CUDA Programming

By: Jaegeun Han, Bharatkumar Sharma

Overview of this book

<p>Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) is NVIDIA's GPU computing platform and application programming interface. It's designed to work with programming languages such as C, C++, and Python. With CUDA, you can leverage a GPU's parallel computing power for a range of high-performance computing applications in the fields of science, healthcare, and deep learning. </p><p> </p><p>Learn CUDA Programming will help you learn GPU parallel programming and understand its modern applications. In this book, you'll discover CUDA programming approaches for modern GPU architectures. You'll not only be guided through GPU features, tools, and APIs, you'll also learn how to analyze performance with sample parallel programming algorithms. This book will help you optimize the performance of your apps by giving insights into CUDA programming platforms with various libraries, compiler directives (OpenACC), and other languages. As you progress, you'll learn how additional computing power can be generated using multiple GPUs in a box or in multiple boxes. Finally, you'll explore how CUDA accelerates deep learning algorithms, including convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs). </p><p> </p><p>By the end of this CUDA book, you'll be equipped with the skills you need to integrate the power of GPU computing in your applications.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication

NVBLAS for zero coding acceleration in Octave and R

NVBLAS is a CUDA library for the BLAS operation for other packages, such as Octave and R. By replacing the operations carried out OpenBLAS, the Octave or developers and data scientists can easily enjoy GPU performance. In this chapter, we will cover how to accelerate Octave and R using NVBLAS.

NVBLAS is a dynamic library on top of the cuBLAS operation. The cuBLAS library is a GPU implementation of linear algebra operations. It replaces BLAS libraries, so that we can easily accelerate any application with zero coding effort. Let's see how this can be done from GEMM example codes.

Configuration

To use NVBLAS in Octave and R, we need to provide some working environment variables...