PMPP Playground (C & CUDA)

A repository for experimenting while reading Programming Massively Parallel Processors book.

Structure

pmpp-playground/
├── CMakeLists.txt           # Top-level build
├── common/                  # Reusable library (C + header-only CUDA helpers)
└── chapters/                # Chapter-specific code

Build

Requirements:

• CMake >= 3.22
• CUDA toolkit installed (for CUDA kernels)
• A C compiler (gcc/clang/MSVC)

cd pmpp-playground
cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build -j

Notes

• common/timer.h offers a simple wall-clock timer in C.
• common/cuda_check.h provides CUDA_CHECK for ergonomic CUDA error handling.
• common/cuda_utils.cuh has small, header-only CUDA helpers (grid dims, etc.).