Summary

To summarize, in this chapter, you were introduced to CUDA and briefed upon the importance of parallel computing. Applications of CUDA and GPUs in various domains were discussed at length. The chapter described the hardware and software setup required to execute CUDA applications on your PCs. It gave a step-by-step procedure to install CUDA on local PCs.

The last section gave a starting guide for application development in CUDA C by developing a simple program and executing it on Windows and Ubuntu.

In the next chapter, we will build on this knowledge of programming in CUDA C. You will be introduced to parallel computing using CUDA C by way of several practical examples to show how it is faster compared to normal programming. You will also be introduced to the concepts of threads and blocks and how synchronization is performed between multiple threads and blocks.