Advanced Nvidia Gpu Performance Engineering (Paperback)
Langue : anglais
Edité par Independently Published, 2026
Série : Livre 4 sur 7 - Engineering
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Paperback. Ever opened a disassembler, stared at a wall of instructions, and thought: I know what this computer is doing, but I have no idea how?That gap - between using a computer and actually understanding the machine underneath it - is exactly what this book is built to close.Most programmers spend their entire careers several layers removed from the hardware. Compilers hide the details. Frameworks hide the details. Runtimes hide the details. And most of the time, that's fine - until it isn't. Until a program is inexplicably slow, or a bug only shows up in release builds, or a security researcher needs to understand exactly what a binary is doing, or a performance-critical workload needs every last cycle squeezed out of it. That's the moment low-level fluency stops being optional and starts being the entire job.So what does this book actually cover?The first half is a deep, ground-up guide to 64-bit assembly programming on modern processor architecture - registers, addressing modes, the calling conventions your compiler relies on but never explains, how stack frames actually work, how to read and write instructions by hand, and how to debug at the level where most tools stop being helpful. This isn't a syntax reference you'll skim once and shelve. It's written the way a patient, experienced engineer would actually walk you through a debugger session - showing you not just what to type, but why the machine is behaving the way it is.The second half shifts to massively parallel programming on modern graphics processors - writing efficient parallel kernels, managing memory across a hierarchy that punishes carelessness and rewards precision, profiling real workloads instead of guessing at bottlenecks, and tuning high-throughput pipelines for the kind of demanding, large-scale computational work that modern applications increasingly depend on. If you've ever wondered why one implementation of the same algorithm runs ten times faster than another on the exact same hardware, this section is where you'll finally get a satisfying answer.Who is this actually for?Honestly - are you the kind of person who reads an error message and immediately wants to know what's happening three layers below it? Do you want to understand your tools instead of just trusting them? If you're a systems programmer, a performance engineer, a security-minded developer, a student who wants to actually get computer architecture instead of memorizing it for an exam, or a working engineer who's tired of hitting a ceiling you can't explain - this book was written with you specifically in mind.What makes it different from the dozen other technical books sitting unread on your shelf?It doesn't assume you're either a total beginner or already an expert. It builds the foundation carefully, then trusts you to keep up as things get genuinely advanced - with real debugging walkthroughs, real profiling workflows, and real optimization case studies instead of toy examples that fall apart the moment you try to apply them to actual work. Every chapter is built around a practical question a working engineer would actually ask, not an abstract concept explained for its own sake.By the end, you won't just know more facts about how processors and parallel hardware work. You'll think differently about every piece of software you touch - because you'll finally be able to see what's actually happening underneath it.If you've been waiting for a book that respects your intelligence enough to take you all the way down to the metal - and back up again with something you can actually use - this is it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …
N° de réf. du vendeur 9798171893620
- Titre
- Advanced Nvidia Gpu Performance Engineering (Paperback)
- Auteur
- Ian J. Hendrickson
- Éditeur
- Independently Published
- Année de publication
- 2026
- État de l'article
- new
- Reliure
- Paperback
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9798171893620
- Série
- Livre 4 sur 7: Engineering
Ever opened a disassembler, stared at a wall of instructions, and thought: I know what this computer is doing, but I have no idea how?
That gap — between using a computer and actually understanding the machine underneath it — is exactly what this book is built to close.
Most programmers spend their entire careers several layers removed from the hardware. Compilers hide the details. Frameworks hide the details. Runtimes hide the details. And most of the time, that's fine — until it isn't. Until a program is inexplicably slow, or a bug only shows up in release builds, or a security researcher needs to understand exactly what a binary is doing, or a performance-critical workload needs every last cycle squeezed out of it. That's the moment low-level fluency stops being optional and starts being the entire job.
So what does this book actually cover?
The first half is a deep, ground-up guide to 64-bit assembly programming on modern processor architecture — registers, addressing modes, the calling conventions your compiler relies on but never explains, how stack frames actually work, how to read and write instructions by hand, and how to debug at the level where most tools stop being helpful. This isn't a syntax reference you'll skim once and shelve. It's written the way a patient, experienced engineer would actually walk you through a debugger session — showing you not just what to type, but why the machine is behaving the way it is.
The second half shifts to massively parallel programming on modern graphics processors — writing efficient parallel kernels, managing memory across a hierarchy that punishes carelessness and rewards precision, profiling real workloads instead of guessing at bottlenecks, and tuning high-throughput pipelines for the kind of demanding, large-scale computational work that modern applications increasingly depend on. If you've ever wondered why one implementation of the same algorithm runs ten times faster than another on the exact same hardware, this section is where you'll finally get a satisfying answer.
Who is this actually for?
Honestly — are you the kind of person who reads an error message and immediately wants to know what's happening three layers below it? Do you want to understand your tools instead of just trusting them? If you're a systems programmer, a performance engineer, a security-minded developer, a student who wants to actually get computer architecture instead of memorizing it for an exam, or a working engineer who's tired of hitting a ceiling you can't explain — this book was written with you specifically in mind.
What makes it different from the dozen other technical books sitting unread on your shelf?
It doesn't assume you're either a total beginner or already an expert. It builds the foundation carefully, then trusts you to keep up as things get genuinely advanced — with real debugging walkthroughs, real profiling workflows, and real optimization case studies instead of toy examples that fall apart the moment you try to apply them to actual work. Every chapter is built around a practical question a working engineer would actually ask, not an abstract concept explained for its own sake.
By the end, you won't just know more facts about how processors and parallel hardware work. You'll think differently about every piece of software you touch — because you'll finally be able to see what's actually happening underneath it.
If you've been waiting for a book that respects your intelligence enough to take you all the way down to the metal — and back up again with something you can actually use — this is it.
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