C++ AMP, Part 1 of 2: Parallelism and Management
with expert John Stratton
The course will start with an overview of how you can analyze code in terms of kinds of work, and identify where C++AMP might be useful. We’ll talk about why C++AMP is useful for taking full advantage of modern computing systems, and how you can begin to use C++AMP constructs in your existing code. We’ll also compare C++AMP to other popular heterogeneous computing models, so that you can see the tradeoffs associated with each. Then we’re going to cover the abstractions available in C++AMP for managing the accelerator devices themselves. Once an application has a handle on the device it wants to use for computation, it will also need to express data collections and data indexes, possibly in multiple dimensions.
Advanced | 2h 4m | July 29, 2013
Course Outline
John Stratton
John Stratton, Ph.D., is a senior architect at Multicoreware Inc. and a visiting lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. John has been at the forefront of research and education in heterogeneous computing, reaching hundreds of students through the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering’s courses on heterogeneous computing and optimization for scientific applications. John writes papers and articles for leading academic conferences and journals as well as broad-reaching publications such as IEEE Computer. He is also an active participant and presenter at several industry and technology groups and events across the country.