CUDA Books

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Post by dariubs » Sun, May 17, 2026, 12:52 PM UTC

Re: CUDA Books

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Post by phoronixrly » Sun, May 17, 2026, 4:10 PM UTC

In an age when your company mandates you to raise your productivity right now with hundreds of percentage points using LLMs, how do you find an excuse to sit down and read a book?

Re: CUDA Books

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Post by q8zd3 » Sun, May 17, 2026, 4:21 PM UTC

phoronixrly wrote: post #2

In an age when your company mandates you to raise your productivity right now with hundreds of percentage points using LLMs, how do you find an excuse to sit down and read a book?

It feels like a dirty secret, doesn't it?

Re: CUDA Books

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Post by fileeditview » Sun, May 17, 2026, 4:49 PM UTC

phoronixrly wrote: post #2

In an age when your company mandates you to raise your productivity right now with hundreds of percentage points using LLMs, how do you find an excuse to sit down and read a book?

Don't you read while your agents are doing all the work for you? /s

Re: CUDA Books

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Post by hartator » Sun, May 17, 2026, 4:50 PM UTC

fileeditview wrote: post #4

phoronixrly wrote: post #2

In an age when your company mandates you to raise your productivity right now with hundreds of percentage points using LLMs, how do you find an excuse to sit down and read a book?

Don't you read while your agents are doing all the work for you? /s

Or make your agents do the reading for you!

Re: CUDA Books

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Post by chrsw » Sun, May 17, 2026, 5:41 PM UTC

"AI Systems Performance Engineering" might deserve a mention, even though it's not strictly CUDA.

Re: CUDA Books

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Post by phoronixrly » Sun, May 17, 2026, 5:59 PM UTC

q8zd3 wrote: post #3

phoronixrly wrote: post #2

In an age when your company mandates you to raise your productivity right now with hundreds of percentage points using LLMs, how do you find an excuse to sit down and read a book?

It feels like a dirty secret, doesn't it?

Yeah, corps don't want you to know how to code, they want you to be a prompter...

Re: CUDA Books

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Post by zparky » Sun, May 17, 2026, 6:04 PM UTC

I liked going through https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/cuda-training-series/ for an intro and some fundamentals.

Re: CUDA Books

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Post by juvoly » Sun, May 17, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

Increasingly (for instance ADSP podcast [1]) those in nvidia's inner circle are advocating against writing your own CUDA kernels. (Unless that's your full time job at nvidia, that is).

[1] https://adspthepodcast.com/2024/08/30/Episode-197.html

Re: CUDA Books

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Post by pwython » Sun, May 17, 2026, 6:33 PM UTC

First one I clicked on is 404: Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach (3rd Edition) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/programming-in-parallel...