Error handling and global memory performance limitations. This article is reprinted from Dr. Dobbs (http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/207603131). It is still valid as an introductory article. Congratulations! Thanks to Part 1 and Part 2 of this series on CUDA (short for "Compute Unified Device Architecture"), you are now a CUDA-enabled programmer with the … [Read more...]
Part 2 of CUDA Supercomputing for the Masses
A first CUDA kernel. Reprinted from Dr. Dobbs April 29, 2008 (link) Comment: This article is still valid as it shows how to write a simple code to move data to/from the GPU and operate on it with a CUDA kernel. In Part 1 of this article series, I presented a simple first CUDA (short for "Compute Unified Device Architecture") program called moveArrays.cu to familiarize … [Read more...]
Farber teaches massively parallel computing to grade 6 – 12 students in Saudi Arabia
My book, “CUDA Application Design and Development” [English][Chinese] and Doctor Dobbs tutorials coupled with the rapid adoption of GPU computing have given me the opportunity to speak and teach around the world. This January, I had the pleasure of traveling to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to speak and teach a short course on OpenACC and CUDA at KAUST (the King Abdullah University of … [Read more...]