Basic programming concepts in PyCUDA

We will start developing some useful stuff using PyCUDA in this section. The section will also demonstrate some useful functions and directives of PyCUDA, using a simple example of adding two numbers.

Adding two numbers in PyCUDA

Python provides a very fast library for numerical operations which is called numpy (Numeric Python). It is developed in C or C++ and is very useful for array manipulations in Python. It is used frequently in PyCUDA programs as arguments to PyCUDA kernel functions are passed as numpy arrays. This section explains how to add two numbers using PyCUDA. The basic kernel code for adding two numbers is shown as follows:

import pycuda.autoinit
import pycuda.driver as...