CUDA Application Design and Development

As the computer industry retools to leverage massively parallel graphics processing units (GPUs), this book is designed to meet the needs of working software developers who need to understand GPU programming with CUDA and increase efficiency in their projects. CUDA Application Design and Development starts with an introduction to parallel computing concepts for readers with no previous parallel experience, and focuses on issues of immediate importance to working software developers: achieving high performance, maintaining competitiveness, analyzing CUDA benefits versus costs, and determining application lifespan.

The book then details the thought behind CUDA and teaches how to create, analyze, and debug CUDA applications. Throughout, the focus is on software engineering issues: how to use CUDA in the context of existing application code, with existing compilers, languages, software tools, and industry-standard API libraries.

Using an approach refined in a series of well-received articles at Dr Dobb's Journal, author Rob Farber takes the reader step-by-step from fundamentals to implementation, moving from language theory to practical coding.

• Includes multiple examples building from simple to more complex applications in four key areas: machine learning, visualization, vision recognition, and mobile computing


• Addresses the foundational issues for CUDA development: multi-threaded programming and the different memory hierarchy


• Includes teaching chapters designed to give a full understanding of CUDA tools, techniques and structure.


• Presents CUDA techniques in the context of the hardware they are implemented on as well as other styles of programming that will help readers bridge into the new material

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"The most important thing that this book will offer is the application specific examples and the additional detail of how to optimize CUDA for different application areas. This book will also be valuable as an alternative to the existing textbooks, since it is written by a user with an application perspective. - David Kirk, author of Programming Massively Parallel Processors and former NVIDIA Chief Scientist

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Rob Farber has served as a scientist at the Irish Center for High-End Computing, U.S. national labs in Los Alamos, Berkeley, and the Pacific Northwest, and external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. His articles have appeared in Dr. Dobb's Journal and Scientific Computing, among others.

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1. First Programs and How to Think in CUDA

2. CUDA for Machine Learning and Optimization

3. The CUDA Tool Suite: Profiling a PCA/NLPCA Functor

4. The CUDA Execution Model

5. CUDA Memory

6. Efficiently Using GPU Memory

7. Techniques to Increase Parallelism

8. CUDA for All GPU and CPU Applications

9. Mixing CUDA and Rendering

10. CUDA in a Cloud and Cluster Environments

11. CUDA for Real Problems: Monte Carlo, Modeling, and More

12. Application Focus on Live Streaming Video

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