Hands-On GPU Programming with Python and CUDA: Boost your application's performance and productivity with CUDA: Explore high-performance parallel computing with CUDA (Paperback)

Build real-world applications by writing effective GPU code, CUDA kernels, and device functions with the latest features of Python 3.7, CUDA 9 and CUDA 10

Key Features

• Expand your background in GPU programming PyCUDA, scikit-cuda, and Nsight
• Effectively use CUDA libraries such as cuBLAS, cuFFT, and cuSolver
• Apply GPU programming to modern data science applications

Book Description

Hands-On GPU Programming with Python and CUDA hits the ground running: you ll start by learning how to apply Amdahl s Law, use a code profiler to identify bottlenecks in your Python code, and set up an appropriate GPU programming environment. You ll then see how to query the GPU s features and copy arrays of data to and from the GPU s own memory.

As you make your way through the book, you ll launch code directly onto the GPU and write full blown GPU kernels and device functions in CUDA C. You ll get to grips with profiling GPU code effectively and fully test and debug your code using Nsight IDE. Next, you ll explore some of the more well-known NVIDIA libraries, such as cuFFT and cuBLAS.

With a solid background in place, you will now apply your new-found knowledge to develop your very own GPU-based deep neural network from scratch. You ll then explore advanced topics, such as warp shuffling, dynamic parallelism, and PTX assembly. In the final chapter, you ll see some topics and applications related to GPU programming that you may wish to pursue, including AI, graphics, and blockchain.

By the end of this book, you will be able to apply GPU programming to problems related to data science and high-performance computing.

What you will learn

• Launch GPU code directly from Python
• Write effective and efficient GPU kernels and device functions
• Use libraries such as cuFFT, cuBLAS, and cuSolver
• Debug and profile your code with Nsight and Visual Profiler
• Apply GPU programming to datascience problems
• Build a GPU-based deep neuralnetwork from scratch
• Explore advanced GPU hardware features, such as warp shuffling

Who this book is for

Hands-On GPU Programming with Python and CUDA is for developers and data scientists who want to learn the basics of effective GPU programming to improve performance using Python code. You should have an understanding of first-year college or university-level engineering mathematics and physics, and have some experience with Python as well as in any C-based programming language such as C, C++, Go, or Java.

Table of Contents

1. Why GPU Programming?
2. Setting Up Your GPU Programming Environment
3. Getting Started with PyCUDA
4. Kernels, Threads, Blocks, and Grids
5. Streams, Events, Contexts, and Concurrency
6. Debugging and Profiling Your CUDA Code
7. Using the CUDA Libraries with Scikit-CUDA Draft complete
8. The CUDA Device Function Libraries and Thrust
9. Implementing a Deep Neural Network
10. Working with Compiled GPU Code
11. Performance Optimization in CUDA
12. Where to Go from Here