LearnNowOnline - C++ AMP: Parallelism and Management

The course will start with an overview of how you can analyze code in terms of kinds of work, and identify where C++AMP might be useful. We’ll talk about why C++AMP is useful for taking full advantage of modern computing systems, and how you can begin to use C++AMP constructs in your existing code. We’ll also compare C++AMP to other popular heterogeneous computing models, so that you can see the tradeoffs associated with each. Then we’re going to cover the abstractions available in C++AMP for managing the accelerator devices themselves. Once an application has a handle on the device it wants to use for computation, it will also need to express data collections and data indexes, possibly in multiple dimensions.

Prerequisites
This course assumes that you have a good understanding of core C++ concepts, included classes, objects, containers, and iterators. You should also be familiar with Visual Studio 2012 for Visual C++ development, including compilation, testing, and debugging. Although not required or expected, you may get more out of some parts of the course if you are familiar with multithreaded programming, Visual Studio 2012’s debugging capabilities for multiple threads, and basic computer architecture concepts.