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Published inMay 2019
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Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay
Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay
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Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay

Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay is currently pursuing a PhD degree in Bioinformatics based on applied GPU computing in Computational Biology at Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India. Since 2014, he developed a keen interest in GPU computing, and used CUDA for his master's thesis. He has experience as a systems administrator as well, particularly on the Linux platform. Avimanyu is also a scientific writer, technology communicator, and a passionate gamer. He has published technical writing on open source computing and has actively participated in NVIDIA's GPU computing conferences since 2016. A big-time Linux fan, he strongly believes in the significance of Linux and an open source approach in scientific research. Deep learning with GPUs is his new passion!
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Comparing CuPy to NumPy and CUDA

Let's compare CuPy to NumPy and CUDA in terms of simplicity in parallelization. In the following table, we explore the scope of CuPy with respect to NumPy and CUDA so as to understand the scenarios when CuPy could be advantageous to both. Here are some of the differences:

CUDA

NumPy

CuPy

Based on C/C++ programming language.

Based on Python programming language.

Based on Python programming language.

Uses C/C++ combined with specialized code to accelerate computations.

Fundamental package for scientific computing with Python on conventional CPUs.

Uses NumPy syntax but can be used for GPUs.

Casting behaviors from float to integer are defined in CUDA specification.

Casting behaviors from float to integer are defined in C++ specification.

Casting behaviors from float to integer are not defined in C++ specification...

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Published in: May 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789341072

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Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay

Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay is currently pursuing a PhD degree in Bioinformatics based on applied GPU computing in Computational Biology at Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India. Since 2014, he developed a keen interest in GPU computing, and used CUDA for his master's thesis. He has experience as a systems administrator as well, particularly on the Linux platform. Avimanyu is also a scientific writer, technology communicator, and a passionate gamer. He has published technical writing on open source computing and has actively participated in NVIDIA's GPU computing conferences since 2016. A big-time Linux fan, he strongly believes in the significance of Linux and an open source approach in scientific research. Deep learning with GPUs is his new passion!
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