Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach

Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach, Second Edition, teaches students how to program massively parallel processors. It offers a detailed discussion of various techniques for constructing parallel programs. Case studies are used to demonstrate the development process, which begins with computational thinking and ends with effective and efficient parallel programs.

This guide shows both student and professional alike the basic concepts of parallel programming and GPU architecture. Topics of performance, floating-point format, parallel patterns, and dynamic parallelism are covered in depth. This revised edition contains more parallel programming examples, commonly-used libraries such as Thrust, and explanations of the latest tools. It also provides new coverage of CUDA 5.0, improved performance, enhanced development tools, increased hardware support, and more; increased coverage of related technology, OpenCL and new material on algorithm patterns, GPU clusters, host programming, and data parallelism; and two new case studies (on MRI reconstruction and molecular visualization) that explore the latest applications of CUDA and GPUs for scientific research and high-performance computing.

This book should be a valuable resource for advanced students, software engineers, programmers, and hardware engineers.

• New coverage of CUDA 5.0, improved performance, enhanced development tools, increased hardware support, and more
• Increased coverage of related technology, OpenCL and new material on algorithm patterns, GPU clusters, host programming, and data parallelism
• Two new case studies (on MRI reconstruction and molecular visualization) explore the latest applications of CUDA and GPUs for scientific research and high-performance computing

David B. Kirk
is known for major
contributions to graphics,
hardware, and algorithms.
Before pursuing his Ph.D. at
Caltech, he earned B.S. and
M.S. degrees in mechanical
engineering from MIT and
worked at Raster Technologies
and Hewlett-Packard’s Apollo
Systems Division. After
completing his doctorate, he
served as chief scientist and
head of technology at Crystal
Dynamics. In 1997, he became
Chief Scientist at NVIDIA. Dr.
Kirk has received numerous
honors including the IEEE
Seymour Cray Computer
Engineering Award and
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer
Graphics Achievement
Award. He is a member of
the U.S. National Academy of
Engineering.

Wen-mei W. Hwu
is a Senior Director of
Research of NVIDIA and the
Sanders-AMD Endowed Chair
Professor Emeritus of Electrical
and Computer Engineering
at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. His
work focuses on parallel
computing―covering
architecture, implementation,
compilers, and algorithms. Dr.
Hwu has received numerous
honors, including the ACM/
IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award,
ACM Grace Murray Hopper
Award, IEEE B.R. Rau Award.
He is an IEEE and ACM
Fellow. He earned his Ph.D.
in Computer Science from UC
Berkele