OpenCL in Action: How to Accelerate Graphics and Computations

by Matthew Scarpino

OpenCL in Action is a thorough, hands-on presentation of OpenCL, with an eye toward showing developers how to build high-performance applications of their own. It begins by presenting the core concepts behind OpenCL, including vector computing, parallel programming, and multi-threaded operations, and then guides you step-by-step from simple data structures to complex functions.

Genres: Computers, Computer Science, Programming

659 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 28, 2011

Reviews

[Alex Ott · Rating 4 out of 5]

really, between 3 & 4, about 3.6-3.7...
Book provides introduction into OpenCL, basic concepts, structures, functions, etc. But some topics aren't covered in much details

[Mehmet Baran · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very good book. There is a problem with it, though: The canonical example of OpenCL is bitonic sort. The bitonic sort code in the book is given with almost no comment. The author gives a good explanation of the bitonic sort, but never tells which part of the algorithm corresponds to what block in the code..
I havent read the last chapter on combining OpenCl and OpenGL, which seems to be very interesting..

By reading this book, I got a lot of insights on the internal architecture of modern GPU's.