GPU Computing Gems Emerald Edition (Applications of GPU Computing Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0123849888 ISBN 13: 9780123849885

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 2011

Synopsis

GPU Computing Gems Emerald Edition offers practical techniques in parallel computing using graphics processing units (GPUs) to enhance scientific research. The first volume in Morgan Kaufmann's Applications of GPU Computing Series, this book offers the latest insights and research in computer vision, electronic design automation, and emerging data-intensive applications. It also covers life sciences, medical imaging, ray tracing and rendering, scientific simulation, signal and audio processing, statistical modeling, video and image processing.

This book is intended to help those who are facing the challenge of programming systems to effectively use GPUs to achieve efficiency and performance goals. It offers developers a window into diverse application areas, and the opportunity to gain insights from others' algorithm work that they may apply to their own projects. Readers will learn from the leading researchers in parallel programming, who have gathered their solutions and experience in one volume under the guidance of expert area editors. Each chapter is written to be accessible to researchers from other domains, allowing knowledge to cross-pollinate across the GPU spectrum. Many examples leverage NVIDIA's CUDA parallel computing architecture, the most widely-adopted massively parallel programming solution. The insights and ideas as well as practical hands-on skills in the book can be immediately put to use.

Computer programmers, software engineers, hardware engineers, and computer science students will find this volume a helpful resource. For useful source codes discussed throughout the book, the editors invite readers to the following website:

• Covers the breadth of industry from scientific simulation and electronic design automation to audio / video processing, medical imaging, computer vision, and more
• Many examples leverage NVIDIA's CUDA parallel computing architecture, the most widely-adopted massively parallel programming solution
• Offers insights and ideas as well as practical "hands-on" skills you can immediately put to use

About this title

From the Back Cover

Practical techniques straight from the leading minds in general purpose GPU research.

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are designed to be parallel – having hundreds of cores versus traditional CPUs. Increasingly, you can leverage GPU power for any computationally-intense operation – not just for graphics. If you're facing the challenge of programming systems to effectively use these massively parallel processors to achieve efficiency and performance goals, GPU Computing Gems provides a wealth of tested, proven GPU techniques. Learn from the leading researchers in concurrent programming, who have gathered their insights and experience in one volume under the guidance of NVIDIA and GPU expert Wen-mei Hwu.

Features

• Covers the breadth of industry from scientific simulation and electronic design automation to audio / video processing, medical imaging, computer vision, and more
• Many examples utilize NVIDIA Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA), the most widely-adopted GPU programming tool
• Offers insights and ideas as well as practical "hands-on" skills you can immediately put to use

About the Editor-in-Chief

Wen-Mei Hwu Co-author of Programming Massively Parallel Processors and Jerry Sanders III-Advanced Micro Devices Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

About the Author

Wen-mei W. Hwu is a Professor and holds the Sanders-AMD Endowed Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are in the area of architecture, implementation, compilation, and algorithms for parallel computing. He is the chief scientist of Parallel Computing Institute and director of the IMPACT research group (www.impact.crhc.illinois.edu). He is a co-founder and CTO of MulticoreWare. For his contributions in research and teaching, he received the ACM SigArch Maurice Wilkes Award, the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, the Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award, the ISCA Influential Paper Award, the IEEE Computer Society B. R. Rau Award and the Distinguished Alumni Award in Computer Science of the University of California, Berkeley. He is a fellow of IEEE and ACM. He directs the UIUC CUDA Center of Excellence and serves as one of the principal investigators of the NSF Blue Waters Petascale computer project. Dr. Hwu received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0123849888
• ISBN 13: 9780123849885
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 886
• Editor: Hwu Wen-mei W.