September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
14h 7m
English
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Chapter 8GPU-Accelerated CUDA Libraries and OpenACC
What's in this chapter?
- Exploring new levels of parallelism with CUDA libraries
- Understanding the common workflow shared by many CUDA libraries
- Experimenting with CUDA libraries in linear algebra, Fourier transforms, and random number generation
- Covering new library features in CUDA 6
- Accelerating applications on GPUs with OpenACC directives
In this book, you have learned a wide range of basic and advanced features in CUDA C. These lessons have enabled you to take advantage of the computational throughput of GPUs when writing new, custom applications or porting existing, legacy applications by hand. However, in many cases the main barrier to building applications in CUDA is development time. It is imperative that you maximize productivity and efficiency when creating or porting applications.
To augment the abilities of CUDA developers, NVIDIA and other institutions provide domain-specific CUDA libraries that can be used as building blocks for more complex applications. These libraries have been optimized by CUDA experts and designed to have high-level, highly-usable APIs with standardized data formats to facilitate their ability to plug in to existing applications (pluggability). CUDA libraries ...
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