CUDA学习(1)--CUDA简介

Difference between GPU and CPU

• GPU cares more about data processing ability while CPU concerns more about flow control and data caching.
• GPU is more excellent at computing compute-intensive and high parellel computation due to it’s architechture.

Introduction to CUDA

CUDA is a general purpost parallel computing platform and programming model that leverages the parallel compute engine in NVIDIA GPUs to solve many complex computational problems in a more efficient way than on a CPU.

Three abstractioin of the core of CUDA

• Thread Hierarchy
• Memory Hierarchy
• Heterogeneous Programming