Material for the Course: Modern Computing for Physics

M.Sc. in Physics of Data — University of Padova — Academic Year 2024-2025

CUDA-C

• Hello World in CUDA
• Scalar Sum
• Vector Sum
• Elementwise Matrix Manipulation
• Matrix Multiplication
• Stencil Operations
• Reduction Operations

Numba

• jit
• vectorize
• guvectorize

CUDA in Python with Numba and CuPy

• (gu)vectorize with CUDA Backend
• cuda.jit
• cupy

All code has been tested targeting the NVIDIA Jetson Nano 2GB Dev Kit.

Warning

For more time-consuming computations on the NVIDIA Jetson Nano, it is recommended to disable the timeout, which is set by default at 5 seconds. To do this, run the script provided under the MCP folder as sudo.

sudo ./disable_timeout.sh