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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 social impact of GPUs

Big data is everywhere and so datasets are also everywhere, meaning that GPUs and AI can be applied to any other computational field. Since we have already discussed how GPUs can contribute in science and AI, let's read about some more examples in other fields that reveal more about how GPUs can contribute to our society.

We are going to discuss some diverse fields here, but, of course, there are no limits!

Archaeological restoration/reconstruction

The following research paper is discussed in this section: Automated GPU-Based Surface Morphology Reconstruction of Volume Data for Archaeology, D Jungblut, S Karl, H Mara, S Krömker, G Wittum (2012), Contributions in Mathematical and Computational...