November 2016
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
18h 22m
English
Abstract
This chapter introduces OpenCL to CUDA programmers. It shows the direct correspondence between OpenCL concepts and CUDA concepts. It also presents a direct correspondence between OpenCL device architecture and CUDA device architecture. It uses the Direct Coulomb Summation kernel to illustrate the practical use of OpenCL features.
Keywords
OpenCL; Open Compute Language; NDRange; work group; work item; kernel; context; compute unit; command queue; standard
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