OpenACC workshop at TU Dortmund
Applied Parallel Computing LLC has delivered the OpenACC Workshop at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. The workshop has been kindly supported by NVID...
4-day CUDA Course at Airbus Defence and Space
Applied Parallel Computing LLC has delivered the 4-day CUDA Course at Airbus Defence and Space, Ulm, Germany.
Use CUDA 7.0 NVRTC with Thrust
Rintime Compilation (NVRTC) introduced in CUDA 7.0 allows to dynamically compile CUDA kernels during program execution (see example). This functionality allows to...
Get extra 8% perf in bilinear interpolation on GPU using __restrict__ keyword
Starting from GK110 (Tesla Kepler), “const restrict” annotation on kernel argument has an extra GPU-specific meaning: accesses to that argument should go through ...
Thrust/CUDA tip: reuse temporary buffer across multiple transforms
Thrust is a very handy STL-like template library for rapid data processing on GPUs.
On-the-fly modification of LLVM IR code of CUDA sources
Largely thanks to LLVM, in recent years we’ve seen a significant increase of interest to domain-specific compilation tools research & development. With the re...
5-day GPU computing workshop at TÜBİTAK UZAY
Applied Parallel Computing LLC has delivered the GPU Computing Workshop at Space Technologies Research Institute (TÜBİTAK UZAY), Ankara, Turkey. We would like to ...
How to find CUDA's version of LLVM backend
It is well-known that CUDA toolkit uses LLVM backend, but the used version number is not shown. We can use gdb and LLVM API function to print the version string:
NVIDIA Visual Profiler allows to connect 64-bit Linux server from 32-bit Windows
In CUDA 6.0 release an extremely handy feature has been added to Visual Profiler: support for remote profiling. This means that you can run the profiler GUI from ...
Efficient CPU-GPU data transfers, CUDA 6.0 Unified Virtual Memory
Juraj Kardoš – University of Lugano summer intern and our collaborator – presents a talk on efficient CPU-GPU data transfers and CUDA 6.0 Unified Virtual Memory o...