Ask HN: Best place to learn GPU programing?

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Post by hubatrix » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 6:38 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Best place to learn GPU programing?

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Post by vhffm » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 8:08 AM UTC

There's a nice CUDA tutorial on DrDobb's. It may be slightly outdated by now, but it was a great help to get me started.

http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/cuda-supercomputing-for-the-...

Re: Ask HN: Best place to learn GPU programing?

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Post by hubatrix » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 8:18 AM UTC

vhffm wrote: post #2

There's a nice CUDA tutorial on DrDobb's. It may be slightly outdated by now, but it was a great help to get me started. http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/cuda-supercomputing-for-the-...

thank you !!

Re: Ask HN: Best place to learn GPU programing?

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Post by ksml » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 8:25 AM UTC

I found Wen Mei Hwu's "Heterogeneous Parallel Programming" course on Coursera to be an excellent class: https://www.coursera.org/course/hetero

Re: Ask HN: Best place to learn GPU programing?

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Post by greydius » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 8:39 AM UTC

Free udacity course: https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-parallel-programming...

Re: Ask HN: Best place to learn GPU programing?

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Post by greggman » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 8:55 AM UTC

what does "GPU programming" mean?

Does it mean you've never done anything GPU related ever and you want to start at "put a triangle on the screen" with OpenGL or WebGL?

Does it mean some thing like GPGPU, you want to use GPUs to do computation?

Does it mean something like Vulkan/DX12/Metal, you want do low level stuff?

Maybe someone can give answers to all of those questions but they're arguably different things and all fit under "GPU Programming"

Re: Ask HN: Best place to learn GPU programing?

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Post by rdslw » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 9:05 AM UTC

My advice: 1. buy some cuda GTX from nvidia (second hand ebayish would do)

2. install pycuda https://mathema.tician.de/software/pycuda/

3. dive into excelennt documentation and tutorials: https://documen.tician.de/pycuda/

Literally in 2h, I had first code on my GTX at standard ubuntu. Being it python (plus obvious cuda code in C) was much easier to grasp.

Re: Ask HN: Best place to learn GPU programing?

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Post by jonbaer » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 9:05 AM UTC

https://developer.nvidia.com/educators/existing-courses

Re: Ask HN: Best place to learn GPU programing?

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Post by woodcut » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 9:10 AM UTC

Get a book on linear algebra, a book on C/C++, and download the OpenGL spec and build a graphics pipeline that can render a textured polygon, then add lights, shadows, animations... this will take you a month perhaps.

Re: Ask HN: Best place to learn GPU programing?

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Post by hubatrix » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 9:15 AM UTC

ksml wrote: post #4

I found Wen Mei Hwu's "Heterogeneous Parallel Programming" course on Coursera to be an excellent class: https://www.coursera.org/course/hetero

thank you, does he also teach CUDA in it ?