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Programming Massively Parallel Processors, 3rd Edition
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Programming Massively Parallel Processors, 3rd Edition

by David B. Kirk, Wen-mei W. Hwu
November 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
18h 22m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Appendix A

An introduction to OpenCL

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

Chapter Outline

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ISBN: 9780128119877