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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2022
The key to parallel programming is sharing a task between many cooperating threads running in parallel. A chart is presented showing how since 2003 the Moore’s law growth in computing performance has depended on parallel computing. This chapter includes a simple introductory CUDA example which performs numerical integration using 1000 000 000 threads. Using CUDA gives a speed-up of about 1000 compared to a single CPU thread. Key CUDA concepts including thread blocks, thread grids and warps are introduced. The hardware differences between conventional CPU architectures and GPUs are then discussed. Optimisations in memory caching on GPUs are also explained as memory access time is often a key performance constraint for many programs. The use of OpenMP to share a single task across all cores of a multicore CPU is also discussed.
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