Author name: Nol Moonen

When working with images as a software engineer, color may seem a straightforward concept. After decoding an image you typically end up with an array of pixel values, each a tuple of three integer components. These components generally are “RGB” and so the value (255, 0, 0) must denote red, (0, 255, 0) is green,

In our line of work, performing low-level performance optimization, the compiler is less of a language abstraction and more of a tool to directly interact with. Compilers are complex machines. Correctly converting C++-like code to assembly instructions is a gigantic challenge, producing optimized instructions even more so. It is therefore no surprise that the compiler

Parallel primitives are the ubiquitous building blocks of GPU programming with CUDA and HIP, to make your life as a programmer easier. Primitives like scans, reductions, and sorts operate in parallel over large data inputs. The basic use case has input and output residing in device memory as an array of values. However, the libraries