Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach

by Wen-mei W. Hwu, David B. Kirk, Izzat El Hajj

Overview

Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach shows both students and professionals alike the basic concepts of parallel programming and GPU architecture. Concise, intuitive, and practical, it is based on years of road-testing in the authors' own parallel computing courses. Various techniques for constructing and optimizing parallel programs are explored in detail, while case studies demonstrate the development process, which begins with computational thinking and ends with effective and efficient parallel programs. This new edition has been updated for the latest trends, incorporating the latest techniques and technologies to ensure that readers are learning the most current and relevant practices in GPU programming.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780443439001
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	02/01/2026
Edition description:	5th ed.
Pages:	625
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Wen-mei W. Hwu is a Professor and holds the Sanders-AMD Endowed Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are in the area of architecture, implementation, compilation, and algorithms for parallel computing. He is the chief scientist of Parallel Computing Institute and director of the IMPACT research group (www.impact.crhc.illinois.edu). He is a co-founder and CTO of MulticoreWare. For his contributions in research and teaching, he received the ACM SigArch Maurice Wilkes Award, the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, the Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award, the ISCA Influential Paper Award, the IEEE Computer Society B. R. Rau Award and the Distinguished Alumni Award in Computer Science of the University of California, Berkeley. He is a fellow of IEEE and ACM. He directs the UIUC CUDA Center of Excellence and serves as one of the principal investigators of the NSF Blue Waters Petascale computer project. Dr. Hwu received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

David B. Kirk is well recognized for his contributions to graphics hardware and algorithm research. By the time he began his studies at Caltech, he had already earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT and worked as an engineer for Raster Technologies and Hewlett-Packard's Apollo Systems Division, and after receiving his doctorate, he joined Crystal Dynamics, a video-game manufacturing company, as chief scientist and head of technology. In 1997, he took the position of Chief Scientist at NVIDIA, a leader in visual computing technologies, and he is currently an NVIDIA Fellow.

At NVIDIA, Kirk led graphics-technology development for some of today's most popular consumer-entertainment platforms, playing a key role in providing mass-market graphics capabilities previously available only on workstations costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. For his role in bringing high-performance graphics to personal computers, Kirk received the 2002 Computer Graphics Achievement Award from the Association for Computing Machinery and the Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Technology (ACM SIGGRAPH) and, in 2006, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions for engineers.

Kirk holds 50 patents and patent applications relating to graphics design and has published more than 50 articles on graphics technology, won several best-paper awards, and edited the book Graphics Gems III. A technological "evangelist" who cares deeply about education, he has supported new curriculum initiatives at Caltech and has been a frequent university lecturer and conference keynote speaker worldwide.

Izzat El Hajj is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the American University of Beirut. His research interests are in application acceleration and programming support for emerging parallel processors and memory technologies, with a particular interest in GPUs and processing-in-memory. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a recipient of the Dan Vivoli Endowed Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Distinguished Graduate Award at the American University of Beirut.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Part I. Fundamental Concepts
2. Heterogeneous data parallel computing
3. Multidimensional grids and data
4. Compute architecture and scheduling
5. Memory architecture and data locality
6. Performance considerations

Part II. Parallel Patterns
7. Convolution
8. Stencil
9. Parallel histogram
10. Reduction
11. Prefix sum (scan)
12. Merge

Part III. Advanced Patterns and Applications
13. Sorting
14. Filtering (new)
15. Sparse matrix computation
16. Wavefront Algorithms (new)
17. Graph traversal
18. Deep learning
19. Multi-GPU API (new)
20. Electrostatic potential map
21. Parallel programming and computational thinking

Part IV. Advanced Practices
22. Programming a heterogeneous computing cluster
23. Advanced Optimizations for Matrix Multiplication (new)
24. Advanced practices and future evolution
25. Conclusion and outlook

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Learn how to program massively parallel processors with the new edition of the best-selling guide to CUDA and GPU parallel programming