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Hands-On GPU Computing with Python

By : Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay
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Hands-On GPU Computing with Python

By: Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay

Overview of this book

GPUs are proving to be excellent general purpose-parallel computing solutions for high-performance tasks such as deep learning and scientific computing. This book will be your guide to getting started with GPU computing. It begins by introducing GPU computing and explaining the GPU architecture and programming models. You will learn, by example, how to perform GPU programming with Python, and look at using integrations such as PyCUDA, PyOpenCL, CuPy, and Numba with Anaconda for various tasks such as machine learning and data mining. In addition to this, you will get to grips with GPU workflows, management, and deployment using modern containerization solutions. Toward the end of the book, you will get familiar with the principles of distributed computing for training machine learning models and enhancing efficiency and performance. By the end of this book, you will be able to set up a GPU ecosystem for running complex applications and data models that demand great processing capabilities, and be able to efficiently manage memory to compute your application effectively and quickly.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Computing with GPUs Introduction, Fundamental Concepts, and Hardware
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Section 2: Hands-On Development with GPU Programming
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Section 3: Containerization and Machine Learning with GPU-Powered Python

Introducing machine learning frameworks

Now as we are acquainted with the fundamentals of machine learning, let's look into some interesting machine learning frameworks and libraries that we can use in Python. In this book, we are going to discuss two specific open source machine learning frameworks, namely TensorFlow and PyTorch.

Basically, a machine learning framework can be a tool, a library or even serve as an interface to get you started with building your machine learning models.

Tensors by example

You might have come across this term many times, primarily because of the popular TensorFlow frameworks and TPU. Before understanding what a tensor is, it is important to recall our high school understanding of scalar...