NVIDIA Fellow David Kirk and UIUC Professor Wen-mei Hwu have published their landmark textbook, Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach. This book will enable generations of programmers to understand and exploit the massively parallel architecture of GPUs. Various techniques for constructing parallel programs are explored in detail. The book also uses case studies to demonstrate the development process, which begins with computational thinking and ends with effective and efficient parallel programs. If you are looking to acquire a solid foundation in massively parallel development, this is an excellent place to start.
The book can be found at Amazon (http://is.gd/7bNYP) as well as many other bookstores.
We've posted three more GPU Gems 3 chapters for this week:
This week, we start on Part IV of GPU Gems 3: Image Effects.
Chapters 14 through 20 of GPU Gems 3 are now up.
This week's chapters are all about rendering everything from skin to vegetation.
Chapters this week:
Beginning this week we'll be releasing the full text of GPU Gems 3 on the NVIDIA website -- Seven chapters to start, and then three chapters per week between now and GDC 2009.
Click here to begin reading the first section of GPU Gems 3,
Geometry.
Chapters this week:
