Introduction to GPU Programming with CUDA and Thrust

Highperformance computing is now dominated by generalpurpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU) oriented computations. How can we leverage our knowledge of C++ to program the GPU NVIDIA s answer to generalpurpose computing on the GPU is CUDA. CUDA programs are essentially C++ programs, but have some differences. CUDA comes as a Toolkit SDK containing a number of libraries that exploit the resources of the GPU: fast Fourier transforms, machine learning training and inference, etc. Thrust is a C++ template library for CUDA. In this month s meeting, Richard Thomson will present a brief introduction to CUDA with the Thrust library to program the GPU. Programming the GPU with CUDA is a huge topic covered by lots of libraries, tutorials, videos, and soon, so we will only be able to present an introduction to the topic. You are encouraged to explore more on your own PUBLICATION PERMISSIONS: Original video was published with the Creative Commons Attribution license (reus