CUDA Application Design and Development

Preface

Timing is so very important in technology, as well as in our academic and professional careers. We are an extraordinarily lucky generation of programmers who have the initial opportunity to capitalize on inexpensive, generally available, massively parallel computing hardware. The impact of GPGPU (General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units) technology spans all aspects of computation, from the smallest cell phones to the largest supercomputers in the world. They are changing the commercial application landscape, scientific computing, cloud computing, computer visualization, games, and robotics and are even redefining how computer programming is taught. Teraflop (trillion floating-point operations per second) computing is now within the economic ...