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Programming Massively Parallel Processors, 2nd Edition
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Programming Massively Parallel Processors, 2nd Edition

by David B. Kirk, Wen-mei W. Hwu
December 2012
Intermediate to advanced
514 pages
13h 6m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter 18

An Introduction to C++ AMP

With special contributions from David Callahan

Chapter Outline

18.1 Core C++ Amp Features

18.2 Details of the C++ AMP Execution Model

18.3 Managing Accelerators

18.4 Tiled Execution

18.5 C++ AMP Graphics Features

18.6 Summary

18.7 Exercises

C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism, or C++ AMP, is a programming model for expressing data-parallel algorithms and exploiting heterogeneous computers using mainstream tools. C++ AMP was designed to offer productivity, portability, and performance. Developed initially by Microsoft, C++ AMP is defined by an open specification which takes input from multiple sources, including from AMD and NVIDIA. In this chapter we provide an overview of C++ AMP.

The focus of C++ AMP is to ...

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