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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

Softmax and loss functions in cuDNN/CUDA

For the MNIST dataset classification, we will use the softmax classifier. The softmax function normalizes the inputs and generates the probability distribution of  probabilities. The softmax operation can be denoted as follows:

cuDNN's softmax forward function supports this operation, along with the channels and all the instances. Previously, we aligned the dense layer's output with the channels. Therefore, we will apply the softmax operation along with the channels.

To confirm that our training is done effectively, we need to calculate the loss function. The softmax loss function is called cross-entropy loss since its loss function is used to obtain loss across  probabilities. The loss function is as follows:

We need to obtain the gradient of this softmax loss to update the neural networks. Fortunately...