Preface to the Second Edition
While quite a bit has changed in CUDA Fortran since the first edition of this book was published, almost nothing requires change as far as the programming practices described in the first edition. The code in the first edition compiles with the latest CUDA Fortran releases and runs on the latest NVIDIA GPUs.
In a nutshell, what has changed since the first edition of this book is the addition of programming features and tools to make the CUDA Fortran programmer's life easier. For example, in addition to explicit data management between the host and device memory spaces, managed memory is now available, which relieves the programmer from having to explicitly move data between memory spaces. Using texture memory for read-only ...
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