[hazz99]

Do you have any career advice for someone deeply interested in breaking into high performance GPU programming? I find resources like these, and projects like OpenAIs Triton compiler or MIMD-on-GPU so incredibly interesting.

But I have no idea who employs those skills! Beyond scientific HPC groups or ML research teams anyway - I doubt they’d accept someone without a PhD.

My current gameplan is getting through “Professional CUDA C programming” and various computer architecture textbooks, and seeing if that’s enough.

[pjmlp]

Given that CUDA main focus is C++ since CUDA 3.0, ignoring the other PTX sources for now, not sure if that 2014 book is the right approach to learn CUDA.

[anonymousDan]

Can you elaborate a bit on how C++ affects the programming model? Isn't CUDA just a variant of C? I presume it is not the goal to run standard C++? Also as I understand it PTX is an IR so not sure why C/C++ can be compared?