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Hands-On GPU Computing with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On GPU Computing with Python Explore the capabilities of GPUs for solving high performance computational problems

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789341072
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay
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Preface 1. Section 1: Computing with GPUs Introduction, Fundamental Concepts, and Hardware
2. Introducing GPU Computing FREE CHAPTER 3. Designing a GPU Computing Strategy 4. Setting Up a GPU Computing Platform with NVIDIA and AMD 5. Section 2: Hands-On Development with GPU Programming
6. Fundamentals of GPU Programming 7. Setting Up Your Environment for GPU Programming 8. Working with CUDA and PyCUDA 9. Working with ROCm and PyOpenCL 10. Working with Anaconda, CuPy, and Numba for GPUs 11. Section 3: Containerization and Machine Learning with GPU-Powered Python
12. Containerization on GPU-Enabled Platforms 13. Accelerated Machine Learning on GPUs 14. GPU Acceleration for Scientific Applications Using DeepChem 15. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A

Writing your first PyCUDA programs to compute a general-purpose solution

Let's continue our exciting journey forward. Now is the right time to get our hands dirty and write our first PyCUDA program that will compute a general-purpose solution. Follow the next steps to get started:

  1. First, open a new file in PyCharm:
  1. Now use the following code to print Hello World from NVIDIA GPU! from the GPU device itself! This is a regular and basic format in PyCUDA:
# Auto initialization for CUDA (can be done manually as well)
import pycuda.autoinit

# Importing SourceModule from the PyCUDA Compiler module
from pycuda.compiler import SourceModule

# Printing from the GPU device itself!
mod = SourceModule("""
__global__ void hello_from_nvidia_gpu()
{
printf("Hello World from NVIDIA GPU!");
}
""")

#Referencing the function for the GPU kernel
hello = mod.get_function...
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