Using OpenCL Programming Massively Parallel Computers.pdf

Using OpenCL Programming Massively Parallel Computers Publisher: IOS Press; Har Cdr edition March 15 2012 Language: English ISBN 10: 1614990298 ISBN 13: 978 1614990291 In 2011 many computer users were exploring the opportunities and the benefits of the massive parallelism offered by heterogeneous computing In 2000 the Khronos Group a not for profit industry consortium was founded to create standard open APIs for parallel computing graphics and dynamic media Among them has been OpenCL an open system for programming heterogeneous computers with components made by multiple manufacturers This publication explains how heterogeneous computers work and how to program them using OpenCL It also describes how to combine OpenCL with OpenGL for displaying graphical effects in real time Chapter 1 describes briefly two older de facto standard and highly successful parallel programming systems: MPI and OpenMP Collectively the MPI OpenMP and OpenCL systems cover programming of all major parallel architectures: clusters shared memory computers and the newest heterogeneous computers Chapter 2 the technical core of the book deals with OpenCL fundamentals: programming hardware and the interaction between them Chapter 3 adds important information about such advanced issues as double versus single arithmetic precision efficiency memory use and debugging Chapters 2 and 3 contain several examples of code and one case study on genetic algorithms These examples are related to linear algebra operations which are very common in scientific industrial and business applications Most of the books examples can be found on the enclosed CD which also contains basic projects for Visual Studio MinGW and GCC This supplementary material will assist the reader in getting a quick start on OpenCL projects IOS Press is an international science technical and medical publisher of high quality books for academics scientists and professionals in all fields ">Using OpenCL Programming Massively Parallel Computers Publisher: IOS Press; Har Cdr edition March 15 2012 Language: English ISBN 10: 1614990298 ISBN 13: 978 1614990291 In 2011 many computer users were exploring the opportunities and the benefits of the massive parallelism offered by heterog [更多]