Jung W. Suh - Accelerating MATLAB with GPU Computing: A Primer with Examples

This book is aimed primarily at the graduate students and researchers in the field of engineering, science, and technology who need huge data processing without losing the many benefits of MATLAB. However, MATLAB users come from various backgrounds and do not necessarily have much programming experience. For those whose backgrounds are not from programming, GPU acceleration for MATLAB may distract their algorithm development and introduce unnecessary hassles, even when setting the environment. This book targets the readers who have some or a lot of experience on MATLAB coding but not enough depth in either C coding or the computer architecture for parallelization. So readers can focus more on their research and work by avoiding non-algorithmic hassles in using GPU and CUDA in MATLAB.

As a primer, the book will start with the basics, walking through the process of setting MATLAB for CUDA (in Windows and Mac OSX), creating c-mex and m -file profiling, then guide the users through the expert-level topics such as third-party CUDA libraries. It also provides many practical ways to modify users MATLAB codes to better utilize the immense computational power of graphics processors.

This book guides the reader to dramatically maximize the MATLAB speed using NVIDIAs Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). NVIDIAs Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) is a parallel computing architecture originally designed for computer games but is getting a reputation in the general science and technology fields for its efficient massive computation power. From this book, the reader can take advantage of the parallel processing power of GPU and abundant CUDA scientific libraries for accelerating MATLAB code with no or less effort and time, and bring readers researches and works to a higher level.