Heterogeneous Computing with OpenCL

Benedict Gaster, Lee Howes, David R. Kaeli, Perhaad Mistry, Dana Schaa

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN: 9780123877673
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Programming
• Index: Computer Science

Heterogeneous Computing with OpenCL teaches OpenCL and parallel programming for complex systems that may include a variety of device architectures: multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and fully-integrated Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) such as AMD Fusion technology. Designed to work on multiple platforms and with wide industry support, OpenCL will help you more effectively program for a heterogeneous future.Written by leaders in the parallel computing and OpenCL communities, this book will give you hands-on OpenCL experience to address a range of fundamental parallel algorithms. The authors explore memory spaces, optimization techniques, graphics interoperability, extensions, and debugging and profiling. Intended to support a parallel programming course, Heterogeneous Computing with OpenCL includes detailed examples throughout, plus additional online exercises and other supporting materials.- Explains principles and strategies to learn parallel programming with OpenCL, from understanding the four abstraction models to thoroughly testing and debugging complete applications.- Covers image processing, web plugins, particle simulations, video editing, performance optimization, and more.- Shows how OpenCL maps to an example target architecture and explains some of the tradeoffs associated with mapping to various architectures- Addresses a range of fundamental programming techniques, with multiple examples and case studies that demonstrate OpenCL extensions for a variety of hardware platforms

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Table of Contents
• Front matter
• Copyright
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Chapter 1. Introduction to Parallel Programming
• Chapter 2. Introduction to OpenCL
• Chapter 3. OpenCL Device Architectures
• Chapter 4. Basic OpenCL Examples
• Chapter 5. Understanding OpenCL's Concurrency and Execution Model
• Chapter 6. Dissecting a CPU/GPU OpenCL Implementation
• Chapter 7. OpenCL Case Study
• Chapter 8. OpenCL Case Study
• Chapter 9. OpenCL Case Study
• Chapter 10. OpenCL Case Study
• Chapter 11. OpenCL Extensions
• Chapter 12. OpenCL Profiling and Debugging
• Chapter 13. WebCL
• Index