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Hands-On GPU Computing with Python

By : Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay
Book Image

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

The significance of Python in AI – the dual advantage

In the scenarios delineated in Appendix A, GPUs are shown to be ideal for big data management, whereas Python is shown to be ideal for data science. But in fact, it is also true the other way around. Hence, Python and GPUs are equally important in both data science and big data, which can be clearly be stated as a dual advantage.

If you look closely at the research papers cited in Appendix A, you will observe that Python and GPUs complement each other very well in terms of AI computing. This fact has led to the creation of machine learning modules in existing frameworks written in Python specifically for GPUs. Before we look into them, we must understand the significance of the dual advantage.

The need for big data management...