Hands-On GPU Programming with Python and CUDA

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "We can now use the cublasSaxpy function."

A block of code is set as follows:

cublas.cublasDestroy(handle)print 'cuBLAS returned the correct value: %s' % np.allclose(np.dot(A,x), y_gpu.get())

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

def compute_gflops(precision='S'):if precision=='S':    float_type = 'float32'elif precision=='D':    float_type = 'float64'else:    return -1

Any command-line input or output is written ...