December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
698 pages
19h 8m
English
Thrust is a template library that allows a high-level approach to GPU and multicore programming, that closely resembles the way the standard STL library is used, effectively reducing the learning curve associated with GPU computing.
Thrust-based programs operate on collections of data without explicit reference to their location, meaning that the same code can use the CPU or the GPU as an execution platform. In fact, Thrust permits a run-time choice of the “device back-end” that will be used for execution, with the available alternatives including CUDA, TBB, OpenMP or plain threads. This flexibility and the level of ease-of-use, makes Thrust a prime candidate for parallel program design.
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