Faculty of Engineering & Technology
High Performance Computing Laboratory
(203105430)
B. Tech CSE 4th Year 7th Semester
PRACTICAL : 09
AIM: Write a simple CUDA program to print “Hello World!”
What is CUDA programing ?
CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) programming is a parallel
computing platform and application programming interface (API) model
created by NVIDIA. It allows developers to harness the computational
power of NVIDIA GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) for general-purpose
processing, beyond just graphics rendering.
Logical architecture of GPU
1. Grids :
Grid refers to the highest-level grouping of threads that are scheduled
for execution on the GPU device. It represents the entire set of parallel
work that needs to be processed by the GPU.
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2. Blocks :
A block is a group of threads that execute concurrently on an SM.
Threads within the same block can cooperate with each other through
shared memory and synchronization mechanisms.
3. Warps :
A warp is the smallest unit of execution in CUDA. It consists of 32
consecutive threads that are executed in lockstep on an SM. This
means that all 32 threads within a warp execute the same instruction at
the same time.
4. Threads :
A thread is a basic unit of execution in CUDA (NVIDIA's parallel
computing platform). Threads are organized into groups called thread
blocks, and multiple thread blocks are organized into a grid.
CUDA program execution flow.
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Steps :
1. Data copy from CPU to GPU.
2. Execution on GPU.
3. Data copy from GPU to CPU.
CUDA program to print hello world.
%%writefile p1.cu
#include <stdio.h>
__global__ void cuda_hello() {
printf("Hello World!\n");
}
int main() {
cuda_hello<<<1,5>>>();
cudaDeviceSynchronize();
return 0;
}
Output.
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B. Tech CSE 4th Year 7th Semester
“Hello world” from diff numbers of blocks.
%%writefile p2.cu
#include <stdio.h>
__global__ void cuda_hello() {
printf("Good morning PU\n");
}
int main() {
cuda_hello<<<2,5>>>();
cudaDeviceSynchronize();
return 0;
}
Output.
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