OpenCL Programming by Example

Preface

This book is designed as a concise introduction to OpenCL programming for developers working on diverse domains. It covers all the major topics of OpenCL programming and illustrates them with code examples and explanations from different fields such as common algorithm, image processing, statistical computation, and machine learning. It also dedicates one chapter to Optimization techniques, where it discusses different optimization strategies on a single simple problem.

Parallel programming is a fast developing field today. As it is becoming increasingly difficult to increase the performance of a single core machine, hardware vendors see advantage in packing multiple cores in a single SOC. The GPU (Graphics Processor Unit) was initially ...